Re: Fwd: Direct Free Publishing
Seth Finkelstein <[email protected]>
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> With all this vetting and the reliance on "general acceptance in the > mathematics community", what purpose could the publication in a refereed > journal possibly have? It would seem that the Clay Institute needs to get > with the times. Open Access is the way real science works. Functionally, "publication" here just means, in geek-talk, that a certain number of credentialled prof-bloggers are willing to put their reputation-capital behind it. I'm sure that if the proof turns out to be true, making a printout on the necessary servers will be a trivial issue. [That is, at some point, a refereed mathematics journal of world wide repute will reprint the on-line material, for archival purposes if nothing else.] -- Seth Finkelstein Consulting Programmer [email protected] http://sethf.com Interview: http://grep.law.harvard.edu/article.pl?sid=03/12/16/0526234 Seth Finkelstein's Infothought blog - http://sethf.com/infothought/blog/