Beyond open access, which is generally considered desirable, the
essential drawbacks of the current system of scientific
publishing are all connected to the particular way that peer
review is used to evaluate papers. In particular, the current
system suffers from a lack of quality and transparency of the
peer review process, a lack of availability of evaluative
information about papers to the public, and excessive costs
incurred by a system, in which private publishers are the
administrators of peer review. These problems can all be
addressed by open post-publication peer review. Open: Any
scientist can instantly publish a peer review on any published
paper. The scientist will submit the review to a public
repository. Reviews can include written text, figures, and
numerical quality ratings. The repository will link each paper
to all its reviews, such that that readers are automatically
presented with the evaluative meta-information. In addition, the
repository allows anyone to rank papers according to a perso