Science 2.0 - Darwinian Selection Of The Best Paper

Saturday, June 5, 2010 - 20:50 in Mathematics & Economics

Science 2.0 is Openness and transparency.  Those buzz words mean open* access to both reading and publishing and sharing ones opinion on what is published.  Transparency means a process where any editorial decisions that are made are based on known written criteria which are the minimum to keep a science 2.0 website/journal free of spam and pornography.  The only question is how open and how transparent?  In my opinion the answer is that science 2.0 has to be open to everyone who is interested in practicing science.  There should be no initial litmus test based on educational attainment, employment status, reputation, or any other such traditional criteria.   Before I go on examples of websites that look like science 2.0 but are not quite there yet.  read more

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