Smorgasbord: A Better Metaphor for Publishing, Twitter/Musk, Equitable Access, and Those Vexing OACA Experimental Controls – The Scholarly Kitchen (Tim Vines et al. | October 2022)
This Scholarly Kitchen poses an explores an important idea: Describing the role of journals as being akin to a sewage works is more helpful than calling it a gatekeeper. Such a way of thinking sidesteps the drive towards ‘absolute free speech’ (that might provide cover for publishing theories, even if they are whacky and dangerous), but instead recognise the need to keep the crud out of the body of scientific literature.