Hi Bob, thanks for dropping by, if I'd realised before you were directly involved in JNR-EEB I would have asked you some questions in advance! I don't think I'm advocating radical change here (makes a change you might say!). More that if we believe that more of these results should be available (which I am assuming we agree on) that we either need very good business models in place to support them if they are to be conventional journals, or that we need to think outside the box.

But given that this stuff is currently not being published anyway - I don't think we need to radically change the existing system to get it out there - we need new, low barrier mechanisms that make it easy. To beat another dead horse, it needs to be built into the existing workflows of scientists rather than creating new burdens over and above what already exists. I think that's closer to what your suggesting but I suspect the peer review bit may be a) a barrier to entry and b) really difficult to find people to do it in the long term