Open Peer Review in the Times (and, oh yes, in the Chronicle)
Today’s New York Times has a front-page story about scholars challenging the old-school system of peer review (“Scholars Test Web Alterntive to Peer Review”). The story focuses on an experiment at Shakespeare Quarterly, the leading journal of Shakespeare studies. The journal put some submitted articles online and opened them up for public comment before deciding whether to publish them. I’m happy to see this subject getting front-page treatment in the NYT. I’m even happier to say that I wrote a story about SQ and open peer review for the Chronicle a month ago (“Leading Humanities Journal Debuts ‘Open’ Peer Review… Read more...
