"time to rethink the extent to which a single entity should be responsible for disseminating and evaluating research...we should build a more decoupled system in which articles are first disseminated as preprints and then undergo review, filtering, and evaluation"
Carolyn King
journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...
Academic journals have been publishing the results of biomedical research for more than 350 years. Reviewing their history reveals that the ways in which journals vet submissions have changed over tim...