Humanities scholars experiment with online alternatives to peer review
AUG 24, 2010
DOI: 10.1063/PT.5.024613
New York Times : Applied Physics Letters and other physics journals typically take a few months to process a paper from the receipt of the original manuscript to the publication of the final, peer-reviewed version. In the humanities, the publication process typically takes more than a year. If peer review is responsible for the delay, then some scholars have a solution: Dispense with peer review altogether and rely instead on online comments. The New York Times‘s Patricia Cohen reports this and other experiments in online scholarly publishing.
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