The Locator can be also downloaded and used
off-line and its is surprisingly user-friendly. The submission
process itself is totally automated and very short.
The system includes a long series of thematic journals. These
journals self-assemble, in accordance with the call numbers
selected by the submitters. An article submitted with certain
call numbers will automatically be included in the relevant
journals.
The fly in the ointment is the absence of peer review. As the
system moves from beta to commercialization, Scindex intends
to address this issue by introducing a system of incentives
and inducements. Reviewers will be granted "credit points" to
be applied against the (paid) publication of their own papers,
for instance.
Scindex is the model of things to come. Publishing becomes
more and more automated and knowledge-orientated. Peer
reviewed papers become more outlandishly expensive and
irrelevant. Scientists and scholars are getting impatient and
rebellious. The confluence of these three trends spells - at
the least - the creation of a web based universe of
parallel and alternative scholarly publishing.
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