Browsing by Subject "Open Peer Review"

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    Open Peer Review for Digital Humanities Projects: A Modest Proposal
    (2016-04-20) Odell, Jere D.; Pollock, Caitlin M.J.
    Promotion and tenure (P&T) values do not always align with to the practice of digital humanities in academic settings. In short, it’s just easier to measure the value of a publication in a well-known journal or a book-length monograph from a trusted university press. Articles are cited and monographs are reviewed, but digital humanities projects are a less-known product--they come in so many flavors and are disseminated by disparate channels. As a result, many digital humanists may be pressured (after investing many hours of labor in a project) to seek validation for their digital projects by writing one or more articles describing the work for traditional peer reviewed outlets. This discourages further work on the digital project, creating a culture in which the project need only be good enough to describe in an article. It also punishes the digital humanist by doubling up on their efforts to meet the bar of P&T. Without new incentive structures that digital humanists can leverage in the P&T process, the adoption of digital humanities practices will lag and the field’s experimental and boundary-testing nature will be diminished. This is a proposal for developing an incentive structure for digital humanities scholarly production.
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    Open Scholarship Project: Creating Sustainable Growth for Open Access Publishing in the Humanities and Social Sciences
    (Library Publishing Forum, 2015-03-29) Odell, Jere D.; Kelly, Jason M.
    Some successful approaches to open access publishing have grown organically from the cultures that sustain them. For example, arXiv has leveraged the need for the quick transfer of research findings by providing a preprint service. Alternatively, PLOS One has met a need for timely, methods-based review (particularly in the grant-supported health and life sciences) and sustains publishing by levying article processing fees. A successful approach to open access publishing in the humanities will also need to grow from the unique needs of its authors while complimenting existing value structures. Thus, the Open Scholarship Project (OSP) seeks to build a no-fee, subscription-free, transparent and unbound approach to open access publishing. The development of the OSP aims to incorporate four principles: 1) no-fee ("Diamond") open access, 2) versioning, 3) open peer review, and 4) badging. Here we share some prototypes of the system that will support these principles, including: asynchronous, threaded, open peer review at the paragraph level; versioning inspired by GitHub; and a use of the Mozilla Open Badges Framework to permit interdisciplinary authors to solicit imprimaturs from relevant societies and organizations. We also describe initial steps to leverage a library publishing partnership to establish a sustainable, no-fee approach to open access publishing. By joining with others, we believe that ventures like the OSP can create an environment for scholarly communications that respects the culture of the humanities while taking advantage of a fully unbound digital model.