If there is any part of the global publishing industry that has managed to escape disruption in the digital era, it is the US$12 billion global market for science and technical research, the gatekeepers of an increasingly ineffective system of peer review.
Australia’s outgoing Chief Scientist Dr Cathy Foley wants to shake that system up – a whole lot.
When Dr Foley recently published her year-old proposal calling on the federal government to fund and develop a new extension to the open access publishing model for science and research literature, she was advocating a relatively low-cost and potentially high impact idea for the underperforming Australian innovation system.
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