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Scientific publishing in need of a fix soon

By clock on November 14, 2007.

From California Tech:

Although some radical solutions might lead to growing pains, the present state of the industry is rather like the "Sorcerer's Apprentice" animation in Fantasia: the tools designed to support science have developed a life of their own, and are now draining the system that they were created to support by becoming a self-perpetuating industry that is moving closer to a collapse and further from enabling scientific progress.

Mark Montague B.S. '93 is volunteer staff in computer science.

The next panel discussion in the series "What's Wrong with Scientific Publishing, and How do We Fix It?" will be November 28th at Caltech. â¯Jasna Markovac, former Senior Vice President at Elsevier, will be providing an insider's view of scientific publishing. â¯

For more about the legislation and scientific publishing, please visit http://www.gg.caltech.edu/~monty/scientific_publishing.html

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Nice to see. BTW it's Caltech, not California Tech or Cal Tech.

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