Nature conducted an exploratory process of open peer review between June and September 2006, whereby articles were hosted on an open-access server which allowed people to post their comments publicly. 71 articles were reviewed in the traditional way and in the new way: the authors of these articles were surveyed on their views on the benefits of the open peer-review system. When you consider that only 92 comments were posted, and just half of the articles were commented on at all, it's not surprising that the author survey showed a marked preference for the old way of doing things The psychologist, March 2007, Vol 20, no. 3, p. 133.
Is anyone familiar with similar experiments in scientific publishing?
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one thing that is becoming more talked about in economics is online free publishing. The journal Economics Bulletin is one example. The main driver in that case is the increasing price of academic journal subscriptions and concerns over copyright.
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