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Originally Posted by kovidgoyal
I still feel that some sort of non profit organization that does the matching of papers with anonymous referees and hosts electronic copies in perpetuity is the ideal solution.
I have no idea how we would go about setting up such an organization though.
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In Computer Science, that organization would be the ACM (and sometimes IEEE). For those of you who don't already know, the CS Journals tend to be 'archival' in nature -- interesting new work shows up at the major conferences (not in the journals), and the journals get the wrap-up-the-research-project summary/retrospective papers.
So the referees for the big conferences serve the role you are looking for. And ACM and IEEE have their digital libraries, with electronic copies in perpetuity. The only downside is the flat-fee for access to the library each year.
Xenophon