[OWW-SC] POWW!

[Julius B. Lucks]

Sorry to be late on this discussion, but the tactic of arXiv from the  
beginning has been to have a completely latex-based system.   
Submitting to the arXiv is not much more than giving them your latex  
file and figure files, and they put them together in the same way as  
you do when you work on them.  It would be a big jump to force people  
to use latex, but having the primary document source be a text file  
makes the piplelines much easier.

In any case, there is a nice background article about Paul Ginsparg  
(founder of the arXiv) called "Can Peer Review Be Better Focused?"  
that has some interesting thoughts/ideas - http:// 
people.ccmr.cornell.edu/~ginsparg/blurb/pg02pr.html .

Cheers,

Julius

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On Jan 5, 2008, at 7:09 AM, Drew Endy wrote:

> I think an important thing to start with is the remove the
> "transaction costs" associated with submitting, revising, and proofing
> a manuscript.  This takes way too much time at present, even for the
> most enlightened and wealthy journals.  A wiki-based (or better)
> platform could almost completely remove these costs.
>
>
>
> On Jan 5, 2008, at 1:31 AM, Lon Chubiz wrote:
>
>> An interesting feature might be to have an effective mechanism to
>> request strains, plasmids, code, etc. from the authors. Maybe as
>> part of the materials and methods users/readers could add these
>> things like items to a "shopping cart" or something which would send
>> a request for them. I haven't seen anything like that before with a
>> journal. Perhaps, that could factor into some of the updated content
>> ideas others have mentioned. Send stuff out and add in responses on
>> how your stuff works in other hands.
>>
>> Lon
>>
>> Drew Endy wrote:
>>> Does anybody want to start a new peer-reviewed Wiki-based journal?
>>>
>>> POWW (Proceedings of the Open Wet Ware)
>>>
>>> Thoughts?
>>>
>>> Happy 2008!
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