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A comment on French Universities Cancel Subscriptions to Springer Journals. Parent comment

Re:French Universities Cancel Subscriptions to Springer Jour... by chrisseaton on Monday April 02, 2018 @10:53AM (#16734931)
The review process gives authors feedback which they use to improve their paper before it's published, and authors usually appreciate that.

It's also a chance to stop major errors being published, and again authors usually appreciate things like that being caught before the paper becomes public.

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Re:French Universities Cancel Subscriptions to Springer Jour... by RosanaAnaDana on Monday April 02, 2018 @12:17PM (#16735902)
I mean, why not though? We do it with wikipedia. Maybe a publication could be submitted for review, but not made public (like, its up on the wiki, but not 'publicly view-able yet, only available to editors).
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Re:French Universities Cancel Subscriptions to Springer Jour... by anjc on Monday April 02, 2018 @12:43PM (#16736226)
This is what happens, it's the "peer review" thing being described. The reviews are issued so that corrections can be made before publication.
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