What the scientific community needs to do is make publishers irrelevant by creating a series of FOSS projects similar to the fediverse — architected, coded, owned, and operated by the scientific community — with the explicit goal of making a universal scientific journal where peer review is open, transparent, and at cost.

There is absolutely no reason whatsoever for a handful of publishers to gate-keep peer-review in 2024. All of the problems are technically solved, and inexpensive. The only thing that's necessary is the will.

[–] emergencyfood@sh.itjust.works 4 points 10 months ago (1 children)

That already exists. It's called arXiv, and is used by mathematicians, physicists and computer scientists. Everyone else has to pay up.

[–] AccountMaker@slrpnk.net 2 points 10 months ago

arXiv doesn't have peer review as far as I know

[–] MossyFeathers@pawb.social 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

They're scientists, not programmers. They may do programming as part of their job, but that's generally not what they're interested in. In other words, you (or someone else) will have to make it for them because it's unlikely they'll do it themselves unless shit gets really bad.

[–] jupyter_rain@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 10 months ago

I do think that there are Scientists who like programming. What I would see as a hurdle is that this would be a rather big project, so you will have to ask a lot of people. And generally many people would have to be convinced to use this system. A little bit like social Networks: If noone uses it, it is not interesting.

[–] sandbox@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago

The reality is that this idea wouldn’t really fix any of the actual issues in academia. The only thing that would fix the problems with science is the end of capitalism.