Parallel Paper Submission

[Michel Eytan]

Thus hath held forth Adriaan Tijsseling at 28-11-2001 re Re: Parallel Paper
Submission:


[snip]
> An ideal, but certainly attainable option is to have one single online
> repository for papers, in the same vein as citeseer or cogprints.
> Researchers can then retrieve the papers they are interested in, read them,
> and return a score based on relevance, originality, and the like. Perhaps
> they can submit a more detailed commentary anonymously, visible to the
> author(s) only.

We all know that there is a very serious pb about this: MONEY! The editors
will *never* agree to put on the Web for free items that they sell -- and not
cheap at that :-(((

> In this age, one should optimally try to benefit from modern internet
> technologies. Let the academic public decide which articles they deem

HOW? The refrereeing process is intended to do precisely that, with the
concourse of experts in the field...

> relevant and useful. This way articles are much faster distributed (the
> current 1, 2, 3 year delay between writing and publishing is really becoming
> ridiculous nowadays).
>
>
> Adriaan Tijsseling

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Michel Eytan                                       eytan at dpt-info.u-strasbg.fr
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