Current and evolving models of peer review

Fresco-Santalla, Ana and Hernández-Pérez, Tony Current and evolving models of peer review. The Serials Librarian, 2014, vol. 67, n. 4, pp. 373-398. [Journal article (Paginated)]

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New models of scientific publishing and new ways of practicing peer review have injected a recent dynamism into the scholarly communication system. In this article, we delineate the context of the traditional peer review model, reflect upon some of the first experiences with open peer review and forecast some of the challenges that new models for peer review will have to meet. Our findings suggest that the peer review function has the potential to be divorced from the journal system, so that the responsibility to judge the significance of a paper may no longer fall exclusively to formal reviewers, but may be assessed by the whole readership community.

Item type: Journal article (Paginated)
Keywords: peer review, open peer review, pre-publication review, post-publication review, scholarly publishing, scholarly communication, peer review abierto, peer review pre-publicación, comunicación científica, edición científica
Subjects: A. Theoretical and general aspects of libraries and information.
B. Information use and sociology of information > BG. Information dissemination and diffusion.
E. Publishing and legal issues. > EZ. None of these, but in this section.
I. Information treatment for information services
Depositing user: Ana Fresco-Santalla
Date deposited: 02 Mar 2015 11:55
Last modified: 02 Mar 2015 11:55
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10760/24517

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