{"id":13395,"date":"2015-09-17T17:06:11","date_gmt":"2015-09-17T16:06:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jurnsearch.wordpress.com\/?p=13395"},"modified":"2015-09-17T17:06:11","modified_gmt":"2015-09-17T16:06:11","slug":"journal-of-brief-ideas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/index.php\/2015\/09\/17\/journal-of-brief-ideas\/","title":{"rendered":"Journal of Brief Ideas"},"content":{"rendered":"

An unusual new OA journal is the Journal of Brief Ideas<\/a><\/em>, containing “citable ideas in fewer than 200 words” which are published under a CC-BY license. Interesting idea, but the title is not going into JURN just yet. The journal is in beta, for one thing. I also suspect that a clear focus on rational evidence-based discourse may be difficult to maintain, once wider audiences find it and realise it’s a free-for-all platform. The curation, such as it is, seems too light-touch to allow the journal’s reputation to survive a surge of articulate loons.<\/p>\n

However, I’ve often thought that a normal journal might usefully have such short pieces — perhaps tight summary surveys of each of the field’s knowledge gaps (“what we know that we don’t know”). Perhaps such an article series might run alongside a series of imaginative ‘brief ideas’ articles on how those knowledge gaps might be filled. A third series might briefly outline the field’s as-yet unexplored interdisciplinary potentials.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

An unusual new OA journal is the Journal of Brief Ideas, containing “citable ideas in fewer than 200 words” which …<\/p>\n

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