Peer Review Paper

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Pages: 6

This article explores several aspects of the peer review process, including how it has evolved over time, its strengths and weaknesses, and proposed options to adapt the process to better fit the modern communication and publication landscapes. While its primary focus is scientific publications, the article offers a comprehensive examination of modern peer review and provides a strong foundation in the history of this subject. Additionally, the extensive bibliography provides further worthwhile reading. One limitation, which is seen in many sources on the subject of both peer review and self-publishing, is a bias toward utilizing sources and examples from exclusively Western civilizations.

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The article stresses the importance for national and research libraries, such as the Library of Congress, to obtain access to non-traditionally published materials. Similar to Bradley et al. above, Brantley’s article provides commentary on how the rapidly expanding modern self-publishing industry presents bibliographic and cataloguing challenges for librarians. The article is useful for establishing an understanding of the current state of digital self-publishing but leaves open the question of how to catalog and preserve such an extensive amount of …show more content…
He explores four possible options as replacement of the current model: publicly available academic publications with commentary from non-anonymous scholars, publications held entirely by private industry, university academic commons such as online journals, and editorial boards. The article outlines examples of weaknesses in the current peer review model and provides commentary on how changes in technology have both contributed to the “failure” of the current system and could be an opportunity to revise or even replace it with an improved process. Gould, while making some excellent arguments, appears to disregard obvious barriers to implementing changes such as inertia in academia and the opinions of publishers of academic