Two years ago, Stevan Harnad proposed that, instead of trying to replicate, in a low cost fashion, the existing system of online journals and subscriptions, we should scrap the system and turn to a form of self publishing. This made sense: academic authors get paid what they were paid before (i.e., nothing) while the cost of posting a paper under the new scheme is substantially less than the cost of purchasing a journal subscription. Be sure to keep reading this item below the SPARC mandate for a snappy account of what's wrong with the current system in a nutshell along with an impressive list of links.
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