Could We "Wikify" Scholarly Canons? 63
An anonymous reader writes "'We can enormously extend the record; yet even in its present bulk we can hardly consult it' wrote Vannevar Bush in a 1945 Atlantic Monthly article. Nearly 70 years later, academics are still wrapping research in inaccessible journal articles. Might they be doing it wrong?"
Re:PLOS (Score:2, Funny)
(Damn - when will Slashdot get an edit button.) Oh well, you get the idea.
We could have wiki-slashdot and all edit eachother's comments instead of pointing out grammar flaws!
Re:Wait a Generation (Score:2, Funny)
The last thing ignorant science people want to do is to read scholar journals. If it is out of their field, most of the scholars don't want to read them either because they would be hard to understand. That's like saying how we should strive to put more and more things out there in sanskrit because the masses of people who don't know sanskrit are really losing out.