Experiment in open peer review for books suggests increased fairness and transparency in feedback process.

Newton, Hazel and Cartmell, Katherine (2014) Experiment in open peer review for books suggests increased fairness and transparency in feedback process. Impact of Social Sciences Blog (28 Feb 2014). Website.

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Over two-thirds of Palgrave Macmillan authors thought academic publishers should be experimenting with alternative peer review methods. Hazel Newton, the Head of Digital Publishing at Palgrave Macmillan describes their current peer review pilot investigating how open feedback functions in monograph publishing, from the initial proposal to the finished result. Reflections from Katherine Cartmell and Shepard Masocha, a reviewer and an author in this pilot, are also provided below.

Item Type:	Online resource (Website)
Official URL:	http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsocialsciences
Additional Information:	© 2014 The Author(s) CC BY 3.0
Divisions:	LSE
Subjects:	H Social Sciences > H Social Sciences (General)
Date Deposited:	27 Mar 2017 15:51
Last Modified:	15 Sep 2023 19:24
URI:	http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/71005

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