‘As the news release for LiquidPublication simply states: “Don’t print it; post it.” To disseminate the information, the program has a software platform that lets other scientists search for what’s been posted, leave comments, link related works, and gather papers and information into their own personalized online journals — all for free.

‘”I think it’s exactly what is needed — a paradigm shift,” said peer-review critic David Kaplan of Case Western Reserve University in Ohio. “This is a different system that utilizes the unique characteristics of the web [to provide] a different way of looking at manuscripts [and] a different way of evaluating them.”‘

More . . . (The Scientist, Publish or post?, 9 August 2010)