OA and new approaches to peer review

Selected tweets from Ithaka Sustainable Scholarship Conference #iss2012,

  1. publisher round table starting with Charles Watkinson from Perdue University Press #iss2012
  2. paraphrasing: many Uni presses are out of touch with parent institutions, narrowly focused, scared of experimentation due to cost #iss2012
  3. Perdue looking at opportunities for "white labelling" approaches - publish for other people, and they add their own branding
  4. Perdue Press now publishing journal for undergraduate work - great idea #iss2012
  5. Perdue Press also experimenting with app creation to enhance access to archives and newer content #iss2012
  6. Now Julie Smith Davies from American Content Association #iss2012
  7. some what if questions: concept of journal has no meaning, distribution channels explodes/implodes, metrics change radically? #iss2012
  8. value and membership of associations diminishing as more journals available via open access #iss2012 what are the new business models?
  9. Looking at new added value for associations e.g. community support, guidance, access to data, analytics, etc #iss2012
  10. also hearing about new possibilities for peer review - eg crowdsourcing #iss2012
  11. inspiration for new approaches to scholarly publicatin could come from Mr Miyagi and Wile E Coyote #iss2012
  12. Open Access just doesn't work for some smaller not for profit publishers/associations #iss2012
  13. is there a role for hybrid OA models? being suggested that there might be #iss2012
  14. think we might be hearing some support for the gamification of journal publishing #iss2012
  15. Day 2 of Sustainable Scholarship Conference ithaka.org/conference/ith… - first key note will be on new forms of peer review #iss2012
  16. Kathleen Fitzpatrick, Modern Language Association starting panel presentations on next gen peer review #iss2012
  17. interesting review and critique of what a "peer" (in peer review sense) is and could be. #iss2012
  18. need for more horizontal, community driven processes rather than traditional hierarchies #iss2012
  19. think time for a plug for @mweller's Digital Scholarship book bloomsburyacademic.com/view/DigitalSc… #iss2012 - ties in well with current presentation
  20. open peer review processes makes review process more transparent, raises questions that are rarely asked of traditional processes #iss2012

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Sheila MacNeill

Assistant Director, JISC CETIS based at the University of Strathclyde

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