On Fri, 11 Aug 2000, Roy Tennant wrote:
> The point is, it isn't always easy to reliably sift out the
> wheat from the chaff.
And that is precisely what peer review is for, and why it is essential
to maintain and mark the quality of the research literature: Let that
literature be liberated from the access-barriers of paper, and from the
access-barriers of toll-booths, but not from the access-barriers of peer
review, for that's what sifts the wheat from the chaff, and signposts it
for us all.
Harnad, S. (1998) The invisible hand of peer review. Nature (online)
http://helix.nature.com/webmatters/invisible/invisible.html
Longer version: (2000) Exploit Interactive 5:
http://www.exploit-lib.org/issue5/peer-review/
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