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Date: Tue, 23 Oct 2018 13:23:03 +0000

*For Open Access Week, a posting on LSE Impact Blog *



*Progress to open access has stalled. After two decades of trying, the
proportion of born-free articles is stuck at 20%. Kicking off the LSE
Impact Blog’s Open Access Week coverage, **Toby Green** suggests the
solution to our financially unsustainable scholarly publishing system may
lie in rethinking traditional processes using internet-era norms. Embracing
the principle of “fail fast”, he proposes that all papers should first be
published as freely available preprints to test whether they “succeed” or
“fail”, with journals then competing to invite authors to publish. This
would reduce the costs of the expensive, strained, peer review system while
ensuring all papers are available to all readers. *



http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsocialsciences/2018/10/22/do-we-need-to-fail-fast-to-achieve-open-access/