[open-science] Mathematicians aim to take publishers out of publishing

[Jack Park]

Some structure in documents is quite useful when viewed through the
lens of harvesting the text documents into other structured
representations such as ontologies, issue maps, topic maps.

Jack

On Fri, Jan 18, 2013 at 5:58 AM, Thomas Kluyver <takowl at gmail.com> wrote:
> I think It's very interesting. I've been wondering why the cost of
> publishing in open access journals is so high - often over £1000, even for
> online-only journals. They're aiming to reduce the costs dramatically, to
> the point where they're talking about getting funding directly for the
> system, and making publication free.
>
> It's also struck me that we don't really need papers to be uniformly
> formatted, and citations in strictly controlled formats. We just need a
> legible document, and citations that we can quickly look up.
>
> Thomas
>
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