AltInst: Separating Peer Review from Publication

The July 3 '98 Science on p.7 mentions a proposal by several
university provosts to "separate a paper's peer review from its
publication, so that once `certified' the work could be published
in a spearate step - even on one's own web server. ... The proposal
cals for learned societies to form review panels that would certify
a paper as publishable ... such certifications and old-fashioned
publications would carry the same imprimatur in tenure decisions"
See: http://www.econ.rochester.edu/Faculty/Phelps_paper.html

Robin Hanson
hanson@econ.berkeley.edu http://hanson.berkeley.edu/
RWJF Health Policy Scholar, Sch. of Public Health 510-643-1884
140 Warren Hall, UC Berkeley, CA 94720-7360 FAX: 510-643-2627

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Received on Fri Jul 10 18:12:19 1998