LIBR 559L: Topics in Scholarly Communications

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LIBR 559L Topics in Scholarly Communications

• Peer Review Practice

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Peer Review Practice

• Open access, also known as the author pays model

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Peer Review Practice

• Author stating opinion, with no empirical
  evidence
• X is true
• While I have no empirical evidence to point to,
  to prove this point, I know in my heart of hearts
  that X is true
• It is my opinion that X is true

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Peer Review Practice

• LIBR 559L Required Readings Resources are
  they balanced? What about Learned Publishing?

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Peer Review Practice

• The rate of growth of open access is absolutely
  phenomenal!!!

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Peer Review Practice

• Quote from Peter Subers Open Access Overview
• Original The purpose of the campaign for OA is
  the constructive one of providing OA to a larger
  and larger body of literature, not the
  destructive one of putting non-OA journals or
  publishers out of business.
• Quoted as The purpose of the campaign for OA
  isthe destructive one of putting non-OA journals
  or publishers out of business.

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Peer Review Practice

• 1 of 10 doctors agree..
• Research shows that, given a requirement to make
  their work open access, 88 of researchers would
  do so willingly, while another 10 would do so
  unwillingly. Clearly, this shows that OA
  mandates will never work, as researchers are
  unwilling

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Peer Review Practice

• 99 of the patients in this study were helped by
  this drug. Only 1 patient died. Clearly, this
  shows that this is an effective drug, which
  should be approved.

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Peer Review Practice

• Publisher (Nov. 2004, UK) only 1 OA journal has
  been launched so far this year. This proves that
  interest in open access is decreasing. Jan
  Velterop, BMC That cant be true - so far this
  year, BMC alone has launched 11 new OA journals.

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Peer Review Practice

• Actual title of article submitted for peer review
  (with authors permission)
• Useless as tits on a bull (about Albertas
  library card fees authors main point is that
  these are harmful)

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Peer Review Practice

• The growth of OA has increased significantly
  since construction began on Cambie Street.
  Therefore, construction increases OA.

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Peer Review Practice

• We trained 10 people on a new business product.
  Usage statistics afterwards showed that at least
  8 people used the product. This shows that
  training spread the use of the product beyond the
  original training group.