From: Dan Scott <[log in to unmask]> Date: Fri, 14 Dec 2012 11:11:53 +0000 Stevan: A correction: as the press release and our editorial policy make clear, we carry out a full peer review. We also have over 100 registered referees. Dan Scott On 14 Dec 2012, at 01:11, LIBLICENSE <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > From: Stevan Harnad <[log in to unmask]> > Date: Thu, 13 Dec 2012 18:23:13 -0500 > > Here is the kind of "membership" deal Nottingham has just signed: > > "All you can publish" for a year, from a no-track-record journal with > Mr William Martin Modrow and Mr Dan Scott as its editors and a team of > web-recruited volunteers. > > For years I and others had been repeating: "The purpose of OA is to > free peer-reviewed research from access-tolls, not to free research > from peer review." > > Finch's folly looks like it's instead steering (some) UK institutions > toward the latter. > > Lay back, consider social science research, and think of England... > > Stevan Harnad