[Open-access] 'real' publishers Re: Well, this is unexpected!

Tue Feb 28 12:59:40 UTC 2012

koltzenburg at w4w.net wrote:

> 'real' publishers, Bjoern?

> well, I guess, in the age of the web real publishers
> might be the authors themselves who organize traditonal
> peer review for their contributions openly on the web

> any other suggestions?

Indeed, my whole point was that there's no distinction
between what we see as 'publishers' and libraries in terms
of functionality. Thus, we can cut out the commercial ones,
as they add nothing but cost a lot. Libraries provide the
infrastructure, support and know-how to help researchers do
what you imply.

Bjoern

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