Re: ePrint Repositories
At 9:39 am +0000 26/1/01, Catherine Candee wrote:
[http://listserver.sigmaxi.org/scripts/wa.exe?A2=ind01&L=september98-forum&O=D&F=l&P=4034]
...
(3) The first three repositories are
being made available ...and distinct peer-reviewed scholarly products
will be drawn from or associated with them.
I assume that this means peer reviewed publications as a
quality-controlled overlay on the raw ePrint archive, as opposed to
'software products' for conducting/managing peer review?
At 10:28 am +0000 26/1/01, Stevan Harnad wrote:
...
There are some ongoing experiments with
"open review," where it is
self-appointed commentators' feedback that is being used to
validate
preprints, but these experiments are far too small, and it is far
too
early, to judge whether they have been successful in generating
papers
of quality and useability anywhere
comparable to those generated by
undergoing classical peer
review.
Two responses to the above points, on [1] process, and [2]
infrastructure to enable it.
1. OPEN PEER REVIEW PROCESS
We have developed a web-mediated, hybrid eJournal review process
which is more Open than some Open models.
Reviewers are:
- APPOINTED (for their expertise and commitment to review the
submission)
- NAMED (though they can post anonymously)
- and ANSWERABLE (encouraged to discuss a submission with
EACH OTHER and AUTHORS, who are relieved to have the RIGHT
OF REPLY)
- this is initially a PRIVATE forum
If it clears this phase, the submission is added to the main
journal website as a PrePrint Under Review, and goes into:
- PUBLIC open peer review, announced to relevant
communities,
inviting them to view the discussion, and contribute their
own insights.
You can see how this has been implemented in Jnl. Interactive
Media in Education:
http://www-jime.open.ac.uk
Reflections on this action research experiment can be found
at:
http://www-jime.open.ac.uk/about.html#reading
2. INFRASTRUCTURE
The above is only possible with web publishing support. Our
"Digital Document Discourse Environment" (D3E)
[http://d3e.open.ac.uk] implements peer review forums tightly linked
to a document, and we are moving slowly towards a version for free
distribution. We will be discussing potential convergence with OAI at
the March workshop on OAI and Peer Review Journals
[http://documents.cern.ch/OAi/].
Anyone wishing to receive future D3E announcements is welcome to
drop us a line.
Cheers,
Simon & Tammy
Tamara Sumner
Center for LifeLong Learning & Design &
Dept. Computer Science
University of Colorado at Boulder,
U.S.A.
http://www.cs.colorado.edu/~sumner
Simon Buckingham Shum
Knowledge Media Institute, The Open
University, U.K.
http://kmi.open.ac.uk/sbs
Received on Wed Jan 03 2001 - 19:17:43 GMT