• howrar@lemmy.ca
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    2 months ago

    I don’t know about other fields, but we did do this for AI. It’s all community-run, papers are freely available for everyone to read, and the cost of submission in a peer-reviewed venue is to review other papers. The publishers don’t actually provide anything of value except name recognition and being “reputable”, which they maintain through momentum.

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          2 months ago

          Sorry, I might have misunderstood - I thought there would be some journals employing that “review to submit” system you mentioned.

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            2 months ago

            Ah, yes. I just wasn’t clear on whether you wanted to know more about the publication venues or about the value of publishers or something else.

            In AI, we normally publish in conferences rather than journals. Some of the big ones are

            There is a new journal I know of (TMLR) that’s becoming a bit more popular in these circles, but I believe they rely solely on volunteers to review rather than asking those who submit papers.