My last post was not as solution-oriented as I generally try to be. I promised I’d talk about alternatives. I don’t have many answers, but I think I know some of the questions.
Some people ask: how can the system change? That, I think, is easy. By “the system” I just mean the fact of peer-reviewed publication working as the currency of academia. Killing a currency is as easy as killing Tinkerbell; just stop believing in it (as long as it’s not a tax-driven currency). If enough of us stop thinking that peer-reviewed publications have value, they stop having value.
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Alexander Douglas 