Dear All, Just a reminder that our Cognitive Friday series continue with a talk by Zoltán Nádasdy this Thursday. The topic of the talk is: The plan of Quantum Journals: a new scientific publication model Time and place: *27th March, 2014 (Thursday)* *15.30ELTE PPK Institute of Psychology1064 Budapest, Izabella utca 46., room P3* Additional information about the Cognitive Friday can be found here: https://sites.google.com/site/eltekognitiv/home/elte-kognitiv-pentek, the abstract of the current talk can be viewed below. All are welcome! "The plan of Quantum Journals: a new scientific publication model" Zoltan Nadasdy, The 'Quantum Journals' will introduce a "new" model for scientific publication. This is a family of journals that will share the same operation principles and software, called the "publication engine". These principles are: - free submission - open review - open access - community control - quantitative evaluation - transparency - no editor or editorial board - quick publication - copyright ownership by authors - cloning and franchising new journals The group of Quantum journals is one (but not the only) response to the increasing dissatisfaction with the peer-review system. Partly, the peer-review system is responsible for publication delays, acceptance-bias and the monopoly of publishers, which not only paralyze the dissemination of information but also reproduce elitism and the geographical imbalance of science and knowledge. The goal is to provide the necessary publication tools for people who actually generate knowledge.