Peer Review in the On-line Era

Harnad, Stevan Peer Review in the On-line Era., 2001 . In Workshop on the Open Archives Initiative (OAI) and Peer Review journals in Europe (OAI1), CERN (Geneva, Switzerland), 22-24th March 2001. [Presentation]

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All refereed journals will soon be available online; most of them already are. This means that anyone will be able to access them from any networked desk-top. The literature will all be interconnected by citation, author, and keyword/subject links, allowing for unheard-of power and ease of access and navigability. Successive drafts of pre-refereeing preprints will be linked to the official refereed draft, as well as to any subsequent corrections, revisions, updates, comments, responses, and underlying empirical databases, all enhancing the self-correctiveness, interactivity and productivity of scholarly and scientific research and communication in remarkable new ways. New scientometric indicators of digital impact are also emerging (http://opcit.eprints.org/ to chart the online course of knowledge. But there is still one last frontier to cross before science reaches the optimal and the inevitable: Just as there is no longer any need for research or researchers to be constrained by the access-blocking restrictions of paper distribution, there is no longer any need to be constrained by the impact-blocking financial fire-walls of Subscription/Site-License/Pay-Per-View (S/L/P) tolls for this give-away literature. Its author/researchers have always donated their research reports for free (and its referee/researchers have refereed for free), with the sole goal of maximizing their impact on subsequent research (by accessing the eyes and minds of fellow-researchers, present and future) and hence on society. Generic (OAi-compliant) software is now available free so that institutions can immediately create Eprint Archives in which their authors can self-archive all their refereed papers for free for all forever (http://www.eprints.org/. These interoperable Open Archives (http://www.openarchives.org/ will then be harvested into global, jointly searchable "virtual archives" (e.g., http://arc.cs.odu.edu/). "Scholarly Skywriting" in this PostGutenberg Galaxy will be dramatically (and measurably) more interactive and productive, spawning its own new digital metrics of productivity and impact, allowing for an online "embryology of knowledge."

Item type: Presentation
Keywords: Refereed journals, Peer Review journals
Subjects: L. Information technology and library technology
E. Publishing and legal issues.
A. Theoretical and general aspects of libraries and information.
Depositing user: Imma Subirats Coll
Date deposited: 27 Feb 2004
Last modified: 02 Oct 2014 11:57
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10760/4524

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