• @GrassrootsReviewOPM
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    22 years ago

    Yes, or at least the author claims that that is better than publishing in a hybrid journal. A good Open Access journal would naturally be even better.

    How would federation help for open access journals? It is already open and there are search engines.

    A federated alternative for RG sounds great. It is quite hard to get a social network going, especially with introverted scientists. RG used unethetical methods to get it going. Not sure our folks would be willing to replicated such behaviour to get a federated alternative going.

    • @hfkldjbuq@beehaw.org
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      22 years ago

      How would federation help for open access journals? It is already open and there are search engines.

      Access to all federated servers from a single client for better content discoverability; would be nice to also gradually decrease dependency on proprietary search engines; easier to interconnect researchers, reviewers, readers… (this is just my single opinion though, ideally we would gather the opinions/needs from multiple journals, researchers, and users). And the files should be distributed through IPFS or similar.

      RG used unethetical methods to get it going. Not sure our folks would be willing to replicated such behaviour to get a federated alternative going.

      Sending unsolicited e-mails by default would be against the values of the free movement and fediverse as I see it. There should more reasonable ways to attract researchers and people in general.