EUREKA Science Journal Watch
August 17th, 2007 by WaltA group of rabble-rousers and anarchists have started EUREKA Science Journal Watch, a wiki-based site to collect information about journal publishing practices. Their aim is to replace the current academic publishing system with one based on open access. I can only assume that once they have finished destroying science as we know it, that they will move on to destroying all civilization, and then life on Earth.
August 19th, 2007 at 12:45 pm
Right. But actually, we don’t want people to visit this site until we’ve done some more work on it — we need to set up a lot more articles. Then we’ll start a massive publicity blitz and urge all mathematicians to contribute content.
Right now, the only people who should visit are übergeeks who can help us import data automatically, improve our use of Semantic MediaWiki, and stuff like that.
August 19th, 2007 at 1:09 pm
Sorry, should I delete the post? I didn’t realize it wasn’t ready for publicity.
August 21st, 2007 at 8:49 am
It’s okay. We’ll go public pretty soon. We’re negotiating with Eigenfactor to get a lot of journal information, and it seems to be going well.