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There should be an "Open Source" science journal. Where anyone can submit a paper and anyone can peer review or freely read said articles. User accounts could have a vetting process to verify their real world credentials and the articles they review would be weighted accordingly. Funding by donations and for-pay apis to do advanced searches perhaps? How awesome would it be to be able to freely read a repository of this kind of information? And to also be able to accurately say what is or isn't the current "scientific concensus".

I feel like this shouldn't be too difficult to make.

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http://www.plosone.org/

PLOS ONE is this. It is well respected already. The initial invited reviews are mainly a junk filter to establish baseline methodological quality and NOT to evaluate significance.

From their "About us" page:

"Unlike many journals which attempt to use the peer review process to determine whether or not an article reaches the level of 'importance' required by a given journal, PLOS ONE uses peer review to determine whether a paper is technically sound and worthy of inclusion in the published scientific record. Once the work is published in PLOS ONE, the broader community is then able to discuss and evaluate the significance of the article (through the number of citations it attracts; the downloads it achieves; the media and blog coverage it receives; and the post-publication Notes, Comments and Ratings that it receives on PLOS ONE etc)."

I'll just mention for those unaware that the author of the post is one of the founders of PLOS, which is an umbrella organization under which a number of journals (including PLOS ONE) are published.

In addition to the PLOS series of journals, there are also other modern open-access journals popping up like PeerJ (peerj.com) and elife (elife.elifesciences.org). Anyone can go on and download the papers, and usually the datasets used in the papers if you want to replicate their results.

This is something promising: http://www.peerageofscience.org/

http://arxiv.org/

The arXiv focuses on physics, math, computer science, and similar, but it certainly seems to be what you're looking for.

That's not a journal. It's a pre-print archive (hence the name). There's a difference.

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