Community Quote by Mark Walport

I think peer review is hindering science. In fact, I think it has become a completely corrupt system. It's corrupt in many ways, in…

— Sydney Brenner

I think publishing is a cost of research in the same way as buying a centrifuge is a cost of research.

— Mark Walport

The value of a scientific publication goes beyond this simple benefit, of all relevant information appearing, unambiguously, in one place. It's also a way…

— Ben Goldacre

Barring some national security concern, I see no valid reason to keep peer-reviewed research from the public. To be clear, by 'peer review,' I…

— Wilbur Ross

I suspect that the peer-review system carries a good part of blame for the fact that something like sixty percent or more of journal…

— Zygmunt Bauman

But like all power, there are those who want to keep it for themselves. The world's entire scientific and cultural heritage, published over centuries…

— Aaron Swartz

The very bulk of scientific publications is itself delusive. It is of very unequal value; a large proportion of it, possibly as much as…

— John Desmond Bernal

There should be a revenue stream that helps pay for the publication or for the work and helps pay the people who do it.

— Terry Gross

“When content scarcity was the norm, we could live with a minimum of context. In a limited market, our editors became skilled in making…

— Hugh McGuire

Peer review is fine, as long as you're making incremental improvements to a technology.

— Lonnie Johnson

The biggest challenge I think every publisher is facing is how do we get readers to pay for content? So we're constantly testing, trying…

— Maria Rodale

The Internet destroyed most of the barriers to publication. The cost of being a publisher dropped to almost zero with two interesting immediate results:…

— Dick Costolo