Academic Publishing without Journals
By setting up the journals with a bitcoin type blockchain, you could reward reviewers, and citations. SciCred !
just a stub to think about
https://hack.ether.camp/#/idea/academic-publishing-without-journals
I'm going to understand 'academic publishing without journals' broadly.
Has anyone else found themselves implicitly predicting how much academic research would be performed and published virtually in the future? Think things like Sci-Hub, academic blogosphere, increase in number of preprints, etc. Can you 'exit' mainstream academia?
So, will the amount of academic research published in the blogosphere increase over time? It’s hard for me to imagine a non-interesting answer to this question. If it increased, wouldn’t that be interesting? And if it stayed abou...
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