Subject: re: Ahem, shouldn't we do something about it?

From: "E.L. Willighagen" <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 25 Aug 2000 11:19:58 +0200 (MET DST)

> As to the discussion of 'online publishing', my opinion is that if the contributions
> are not peer-reviewd (using the same quality standards as in the printed journals),
> there is always the risk that there will be some garbage among the contributions. In this
> case, not too many scientist will browse the contents.

The Chemistry Preprint Server has a ranking mechanism, which allows readers to give a
quality indication. But since these qualification is not only done by people in the same
field of research it is very different from 'refereeing' in the sense it is done with
journals...

This could be circumvented by assining 'research interest' fields to persons and when
this value is the same as for the article, extra weight can be given to the qualification...

Egon