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📣 huijzer

Can Silicon Valley disrupt academic publishing?


In the last one and a half month, the new Bing was released, a bank went bankrupt and the government took it over, OpenAI released a ChatGPT API and made it 10 times cheaper than the previous API. Also, GPT-4 was released. Lots of big changes in a few weeks.

In that same period, a paper that we published has been sent to reviewers, reviewed and, well, that’s it, I haven’t even gotten it back yet. The editor is writing a response letter, according to the submission system.

Could someone in Silicon Valley please disrupt academic publishing too? Would be nice. Thanks.

  👤 breck Accepted Answer ✓
We are working on it. Real-time research, powered by TrueBase (https://truebase.pub/). Why publish silo'd PDFs when you can instead contribute to a shared global public domain database?

The first ones are https://pldb.com/ and https://cancerdb.com/

TrueBases are how research will be done in the future.

👤 version_five
Maybe SV leaders can collectively post on Twitter about how bad academic publishing is and hope the government makes some rules for them.