We propose an academic publishing system where research papers are stored in a network of data centres owned by university libraries and research institutions, and are interfaced with the academic community through a website. In our system, the editor is replaced by an initial adjusted community-wide evaluation, the standard peer-review is accompanied by a post-publication open-ended and community-wide review process, aiming at a more objective and longer-term evaluation, the publishing costs are reduced to the running costs of the servers, and access is fully open. Our proposal addresses the fundamental problems of the current system: it reduces publishing costs, allowing easier access by less well-funded institutions (especially from developing countries); it makes the editorial evaluation distributed and more transparent; it speeds up the peer review process by eliminating the need for multiple resubmissions; and it introduces a long-term, community-wide evaluation of papers, ensuring their continued relevance and accuracy; while maximising its main goals, i.e. ensuring the highest quality of peer review and giving the best referees, the most visibility and the most credit to the best papers. Our scheme is time-efficient, financially sustainable, ethically fair and represents a significant improvement over the current system.

翻译：我们提出一个学术出版系统，其中研究论文存储于由大学图书馆和研究机构拥有的数据中心网络中，并通过网站与学术界对接。在该系统中，编辑职责被初始性的社区广泛评估取代；标准同行评审伴随着发表后开放式的、社区范围的评审过程，旨在实现更客观且长期的评价；出版成本降低至服务器运营成本；访问权限完全开放。我们的方案解决了当前系统的根本问题：降低出版成本，使资源较少的机构（尤其是发展中国家机构）能更便捷地获取资源；使编辑评估分布式且更透明；通过消除多次重新提交的需求加快同行评审进程；并引入对论文的长期、社区范围评估，确保其持续相关性与准确性。该系统在最大化其主要目标（即确保最高质量的同行评审、为最佳审稿人赋予最高可见度、为优秀论文提供最多认可）的同时，具有时间高效、财务可持续、伦理公平的特点，是对当前系统的显著改进。