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Initially I thought this would be a free system for paper publishing which would let all new papers published to be available in public domain. Why doesnt such a thing exist by the way?
I've had this same thought many times.
it was apretty big deal back in 1999 - http://blog.collins.net.pr/2011/11/httphypothesis.html
Initially I thought this would be a free system for paper publishing which would let all new papers published to be available in public domain. Why doesnt such a thing exist by the way?
And of course, anyone can put anything they want on the internet, which is a form of publishing into the public domain. If you mean, publish in such a way as to get read and become part of the academic literature, that's another story.
It's a great vision, but their website does not disclose how will they implement it better than existing similar projects.
Their response to this concern on the FAQ at Kickstarter is as follows: "No one has yet made an effective attempt to leverage the strengths of the Internet to improve the quality of information we consume, at the place that we consume it. In essence, we are bringing crowd-sourced peer-review to the event horizon where information is produced—the thousands of news sites and blogs on the Internet. To encourage quality,…
Initially I thought this would be a free system for paper publishing which would let all new papers published to be available in public domain. Why doesnt such a thing exist by the way?
Well, there's http://arxiv.org . And of course, anyone can put anything they want on the internet, which is a form of publishing into the public domain. If you mean, publish in such a way as to get read and become part of the academic literature, that's another story.