Taking a Closer Look at Open Peer Review

Submitted by Bibliophile Adv... on April 12, 2011 - 8:17am

From the Chronicle of Higher Ed
By Jennifer Howard

Open peer review—which gives anyone who’s interested a chance to weigh in on scholarly content before it’s published—just got an institutional boost. The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation has given New York University Press and MediaCommons a $50,000 grant to take a closer look at open, or peer-to-peer (P2P), review, the press announced today. MediaCommons is a digital scholarly network hosted by the NYU Libraries and affiliated with the Institute for the Future of the Book.....Read the rest here.

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Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on April 14, 2011 - 10:24am.

''gives anyone who’s interested a chance to weigh in'

Take a look at any forum or blog to see how that can be a major mistake ;)

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