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Re. Can journals monopolize science?

Marc Roussel mroussel at alchemy.chem.utoronto.ca
Mon May 31 10:17:15 EST 1993


In article <1ubohsINNamv at news.u.washington.edu> dfitts at carson.u.washington.edu
(Douglas Fitts) writes:
>mroussel at alchemy.chem.utoronto.ca (Marc Roussel) writes:
>>A point which everyone seems to have ignored is that multiple submissions
>>would actually increase the amount of reviewing to do.  (I think that
>>Douglas may be aware of this, but he didn't make it plain.)  If all
>
>Here is a quote from the paragraph after the one you cite:
>
>"This implies that we must keep the
>load of reviews within the reasonable range, but allowing multiple 
>submissions of journal articles would increase that load for everybody.

     Aack!  I'm usually a little more careful than this.  I apologize to
Douglas for skimming his article so carelessly.

				Marc R. Roussel
                                mroussel at alchemy.chem.utoronto.ca



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