New
York Times:
Applied Physics Letters and other physics journals
typically take a few months to process a paper from the receipt
of the original manuscript to the publication of the final,
peer-reviewed version. In the humanities, the publication
process typically takes more than a year. If peer review is
responsible for the delay, then some scholars have a solution:
Dispense with peer review altogether and rely instead on online
comments. The
New York Times's Patricia Cohen reports this and other
experiments in online scholarly publishing.
