[IRTalk] Do we need to “fail fast” to achieve open access?

[Nason Bimbe]

Progress to open access has stalled. After two decades of trying, the
proportion of born-free articles is stuck at 20%. Kicking off the Impact
Blog’s Open Access Week coverage, Toby Green suggests the solution to our
financially unsustainable scholarly publishing system may lie in rethinking
traditional processes using internet-era norms. Embracing the principle of
“fail fast”, all papers should first be published as freely available
preprints to test whether they “succeed” or “fail”, with journals then
competing to invite authors to publish. This would reduce the costs of the
expensive, straining peer review system while ensuring all papers are
available to all readers.

http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsocialsciences/2018/10/22/do-we-need-to-fail-fast-to-achieve-open-access/



Nason Bimbe

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