From: Sandy Thatcher <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Fri, 18 Mar 2016 13:48:59 -0500

Some senior economists, frustrated with the time it takes for articles
to get accepted and published in the major journals, have for years
now been posting their papers on their websites, confident that their
reputations are such that people will trust what they say and not be
afraid because they articles have not been peer-reviewed. Also, some
well-known professors in law schools, where journal articles are not
peer-reviewed anyway but reviewed only by undergraduate student
editors of the law reviews, have chosen to start blogs, which have
gained stature as reliable sources in their legal specialties. "The
times they are a changin'" as Bob Dylan once wrote.

Sandy Thatcher



> From: "Jim O'Donnell" <[log in to unmask]>
> Date: Tue, 15 Mar 2016 18:18:16 -0700
>
>> From "tomorrow's" New York Times:
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> http://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/16/science/asap-bio-biologists-published-to-the-internet.html
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> A small insurgency, but from some very visible people.
>
> Jim O'Donnell
> ASU