Open Peer-review Model for Publishing Scientific Results

Regular readers know that we are not only big supporters of open-access publication and arxiv.org, we see them as natural outcomes due to progress in communication technology. In fact most traditional journals are still surviving because of help from dinosaurs otherwise known as funding agencies, who give more priority to one form of publication (paper) than others (software, database, website, blog, twitter, seqanswers).

Two months back, we learned about Gigascience from a colleague and liked their ‘zero publication charge’ model. They are also trying to push the boundary in other ways, and the following commentary, cross-posted with permission from Scott Edmunds’ blog at Gigascience, explains how.

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