Published In
Journal of Librarianship and Scholarly Communication
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
10-2016
Subjects
Peer review, Communication in learning and scholarship, Scholarly publishing -- Technological innovations, Scholarly communication
Abstract
Introduction: Peer-review practices in scholarly publishing are changing. Digital publishing mechanisms allow for open peer review, a peer review process that discloses author and reviewer identities to one another. This model of peer review is increasingly implemented in scholarly publishing. In science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) disciplines, open peer review is implemented in journal publishing processes, and, in the humanities and social sciences, it is often coupled with new scholarship practices, such as the digital humanities. This article reports findings from an exploratory study on peer-review and publishing practices in Library and Information Science (LIS), focusing on LIS’s relationships with open peer review.
Methods: Editors of LIS journals were surveyed regarding journal peer review and publishing practices.
Results: This article reports the general “pulse” of attitudes and conversations regarding open peer review and discusses its challenges in LIS. Results show an ideological split between traditionally-published journals and open access and association-affiliated journals. Open access and association-affiliated journal editors are more likely to consider investigating open peer review.
Discussion: The LIS community of journal editors, authors, reviewers, and readers need to discuss open peer review as well as experiment with it. Experiments with open peer review in scholarly LIS publishing will inform our praxis as librarians.
Rights
© 2016 Ford.
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
DOI
10.7710/2162-3309.2148
Persistent Identifier
http://archives.pdx.edu/ds/psu/18485
Citation Details
Ford, E., (2016). Opening Review in LIS Journals: A Status Report. Journal of Librarianship and Scholarly Communication. 4.
Description
The data associated with this article is available online: http://archives.pdx.edu/ds/psu/18227
Originally published in Journal of Librarianship and Scholarly Communication and is available online: http://doi.org/10.7710/2162-3309.2148