Nobel prize winner is boycotting top journals in his area

[lcs]

http://www.theguardian.com/science/2013 ... CMP=twt_fd

Easier when you already have a Nobel prize XD

[webwit]

Everyone gets one of those. My dog has a nobel peace prize.

[Muirium]

I had to laugh when I heard Obama got one shortly after being elected American President. He hadn't done anything yet! I guess the idea was to honour Martin Luther King's legacy, but with the speed it came, it felt a bit like an award for being anyone but George W.

[7bit]

Why not release everything in the web?

Seriously, we have 2013 and don't want to walk into the library to dig out the latest sci-fy papers!

[lcs]

Why not release everything in the web?

Seriously, we have 2013 and don't want to walk into the library to dig out the latest sci-fy papers!

I believe the problem is the peer-reviewing aspect.

For instance, we have arxiv for 'exact sciences' papers, but which ones are actually good?

[Daniel]

In my opinion it should be mandatory to publish every result / paper which comes from a publicly funded research project under a bsd style license. And make it freely available.
This of course doesn't hinder anyone to publish it in journal as well.

[lcs]

Yes, but then journals would not want to publish. They make a *lot* of money. The system is all wrong.

[Halvar]

As I understand, Dr Schekman's point has in fact not a lot to do with the open access movement. What he says is that these journals basically pick their articles too much by popularity instead of scientific value.

[JBert]

Everyone gets one of those. My dog has a nobel peace prize.

But does it have a Nobel prize in physiology or medicine? Because that's what the man in question has been awarded, contrary to some early reports.

[webwit]

Who cares? The Nobel prize is corrupted and kaput. They did it all to themselves.

[7bit]

I bet your dog got the Nobel prize for promising to stop biting at children, within the next 4 years, or so.

[webwit]

He got it for killing other dogs, which he does when he suspects there is a bad dog in the vicinity. He's a peacemaker.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/mid ... story.html

[7bit]

Ah, I see. Killing the 13, for one and all times, should be worth a Nobel price.

[Muirium]

"Pre-emptive Peacemaking." They changed the name after Bush and Blair gave "Liberal Interventionism" a bad rep.

[adhoc]

This is why I left academics to work for the industry. It's just bullshit which is paid worse on top of it.