Wesrch

So what your saying is that this is a place for all the high school drop outs to public their "papers" because no real journal would accept them?

No, I am saying it is a solution to the problem of having to pay a journal many thousands of dollars to possibly publish your paper in a year or two with a minisculely negligible and plummeting circulation, total inaccessibility, and at a price that even their own library cannot afford.

Besides peer review placing far too much emphasis on the nature of the supporting institution, scholarly journals are horribly obsolete and clearly doomed.

Furthermore, the overwhelming majority of decent and credibly useful research is done by individuals and small scale startups, and not by overly bloated federal funded universities with a "publish or perish" mandate .

The question is what will utterly and totally blow the journals out of the water. wesrch seems to be a major and sorely needed giant leap in the right direction.

As previously posted, wesrch seems to have controls in place that appear to be preserving exceptionally high paper quality. As with Wikipedia, there probably will be rough spots. But, at present, Wikipedia is more accurate and more useful than Britannica.

Not one of their present wesrch papers comes remotely near to meeting your "highschool dropout" criteria. Or, if it does, they are an instant hire.

The present mix is ridiculously better than a typical journal issue.

Several other sites not only do not accept .PDF, but they stupidly demand HTML and then place major limits on the HTML use. These clearly ain't gonna happen long term.