[…] credible community-based venture. Peer review is no longer strictly a pre-publication exercise. It can now be a part of post-publication workflow, even an action taken before data collection. To overcome the challenges around peer reviewers’ availability, quality of review, and […]
Editor’s Note: Over the last week, we’ve had two posts looking at the potential changes to the research communication workflow that are now emerging as preprints become a more accepted part of the landscape. Tim Vines suggests that preprints may […]
[…] interfere in the process of scholarly communication? To be specific, does the interplay of different identities in the scholarly publishing workflow make essential steps like peer review less objective? Though this may sound contradictory, only by embracing these identities can […]
[…] including start-ups, which support different aspects of scholarly publishing — from helping authors to check manuscript language to improving journals’ workflow to creating opportunities to enhance journals’ profile — also work with wide range of volunteers at different capacities (e.g., […]
[…] bold and opt-in if you’re ever presented with the opportunity to participate in open peer review, or other new peer-review workflow models. Open review is designed to increase transparency in peer review and give power back to the community by […]
[…] larger companies whose goal was to achieve the scale necessary to bring the content online. Second Wave – 2010s – Workflow and Open Access By the second decade, many societies and publishers relied on vendor software to support editorial workflows […]
Cell Press recently announced a new initiative called Community Review. The initiative tackles the core inefficiency of the current peer review system: articles often have to be reviewed at multiple journals before finding the right place where they ‘fit’. This […]
[…] fact that publishers have succeeded over the past two decades in reaping 100% of the efficiencies from digital media and workflows and shared none of that with authors. This will continue. More authors will find their way to smaller publishers […]
[…] transparency, reproducibility, and reuse of contents used and generated. Preprints are now one of the first steps in the publishing workflow. The responsibility for trustworthy behavior here falls upon the author. This can be enriched with the sharing of data, […]
Publishing as we know it is being redefined to include other forms of content that are part of the scholar’s workflow.
[…] bold and opt-in if you’re ever presented with the opportunity to participate in open peer review, or other new peer-review workflow models. Open review is designed to increase transparency in peer review and give power back to the community by […]
[…] think is happening to research quality today. Why do you think peer review is so central to so many research workflows — not just publication, but also grant application, conference abstract submission, and more? In terms of the research itself, […]
[…] same way? Is it equally important across all disciplines and publication types? And what about peer review in other research workflows, such as grant applications, conference submissions, promotion and tenure applications, and more? Some efforts to create an instrument for […]
[…] APCs will influence the sustainability of any transformative model involving publishing at the consortial level. Adding or customizing an OA workflow based on APCs for a mostly “Read” consortium may not be cost effective for any particular publisher. OA workflows […]
[…] can now take our metadata and employ automated analysis which could be used to improve many of our processes and workflows. Furthermore, with well-defined calculations, an algorithm can help us solve issues that would take months or years to resolve. […]