http://www.newscientist.com/opinion/opinterview.jsp;jsessionid=NEMPGLINCCMF?id=ns24191
The crisis in scientific publishing has been ongoing for so long it looks like normality. While this may seem out of topic for a blog on applied IT networking education, the issues involved here relate to intellectual property and the most effective distribution of ideas. The latter is something at which networks are particularly good -- the article interviews a major US government scientist who has implemented 'opn source' science publication, upstaging the epensive and slow-to-publish scientific journal system.
Since most scientists want to publish information and read that from others, the intellectual property issues here are much less pressing. Open source publishing may have just as much impact on scientific journal publishing as open source software development has on proprietary systems.
Posted by jho at November 5, 2003 11:37 AM