mercoledì, febbraio 27, 2008

a proposito di open access

Ho ricevuto via email l'invito a considerare la pubblicazione di articoli scientifici su un nuovo giornale open access: Scholarly Research Exchange. Sembra interessante, sopratutto per i seguenti punti (taglio e incollo dal sito e dal press release).

One important feature of the peer review model used by Scholarly Research Exchange is that the identities and evaluations of the peer reviewers are published on the journal web site once an article is accepted for publication. In addition, each of the reviewers can opt for publishing a commentary on the manuscript. This model of transparent peer review provides the journal's readers with a more in-depth analysis of each published article, and it enables reviewers to present a more nuanced evaluation of the articles that they review. The system also publicly acknowledges the important contributions of peer reviewers in the review process.
 Once an article is accepted
for publication, the reviewers' commentaries and their
assessment of themanuscript's quality are published
alongside the final version of the article.
In addition to these reviewers' evaluations,
members of the
scientific community will also
be able to participate in a discussion

around every manuscript.
dato il gran parlare (qui da Marco, ad esempio, ma anche qui) di open access mi sembra una novità degna di rilievo ed piena sintonia la zeitgeist 2.0