JoVE hits Big Time

My first thought was the same as Attila's: how will JoVE (free) work with Wiley-Blackwell (toll access)?

(I feel a particular venom towards W-B, because my institution does not take any of their subscriptions so every time I turn up a reference to one of their journals, I cannot read it without paying USD30 or so and am reminded how much I hate the current publishing model. Moshe apparently also has a deal with Annu Rev, and they piss me off for the same reason.)

In an update, Attila reports that Moshe says the protocols will be co-published, that is, freely available on JoVE. That is good news, and I look forward to seeing how it will be achieved technically -- will there be direct links? How much of the protocol will be in the video -- that is, what need will remain for the costly print version?

As I comment in my blog I think this is a great opportunity for the expansion and enriching of content available in publications in the new digital publishing age. I don't think JoVE is propossing they are peer-reviewed, but I pose the question - should video publications be peer reviewed?