v.21 #3 Table of Contents
Trends: What’s Up With Peer Review?
Guest Editor – Irving Rockwood
| ISSUES, NEWS AND GOINGS ON | |
| Rumors | 1 |
| From Your Editor | 6 |
| Letters to the Editor | 6 |
| Deadlines | 6 |
| FEATURES | |
| Peer Review: The History, the Issues, and New Directions by Irving Rockwood | 1 |
| Peer review is a much more important and more exciting topic than in might first appear. | |
| Current Peer Review Practice and Perceptions: A View from the Field by Mark Ware | 20 |
| Responses were received from over 3,000 academics from around the world who completed an online survey in late 2007. | |
| PLoS One: New Approaches and Initiatives in the Evolution of the Academic Journal by Peter Binfield | 24 |
| The PLoS One peer review process focuses on the objective assessment of scientific rigor and research integrity. | |
| Interactive Open Access Peer Review: The Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics Model by Ulrich Poschl | 26 |
| The editorial and citation statistics of ACP clearly demonstrate that interactive open access peer review indeed facilitates and enhances scientific communication and quality assurance. | |
| The Open Scholarship Full Disclosure Initiative: A Subversive Proposal by Gary Hall | 34 |
| Gary proposes the “Open Scholarship Full Disclosure Initiative” as a supplement to Stevan Harnad’s “subversive proposal.” | |
| The Odd Case of Book Reviews by David Shatz | 40 |
| Book review differ from most scholarly publications in a glaring respect: they are not peer reviewed. | |
| Op Ed: The Implications of “Good Enough” and the Future of Libraries by Tony Horava FULL TEXT: pdf html | 50 |
| While Voltaire didn’t work in a 21st century library, he could still teach us a thing or two about reaching beyond our circumstances. | |
| Back Talk: There is an Old Saying that Goes… by Tony Ferguson | 94 |
| Tony made a decision to keep the library open 24/7 but he says no good deed goes unpunished. | |
| ATG INTERVIEWS | |
| Meris Mandernauch | 42 |
| Collection Development Librarian, James Madison University | |
| Dennis Brunning Q&A with Carol Saller and Ann Ewbank | 46 |
| Including a side-story on The New Yorker Digital Reader and his Advise Column. | |
| PROFILES ENCOURAGED | |
| Amy Kohrman | 14 |
| Meris Mandernach | 44 |
| REVIEWS | |
| From the Reference Desk: Reviews of Reference Titles by Tom Gilson | 51 |
| One of Tom’s selections for this issue is the Encyclopedia of the First Amendment. | |
| Book Reviews: Monographic Musings by Deb Vaughn | 53 |
| This month, explore antiquities, world religions, and cooking. | |
| LEGAL ISSUES | |
| Cases of Note – Copyright: When A Bare Possibility of Access Is Not Enough by Bruce Strauch | 55 |
| This one’s about music and copyright. Don’t miss it! | |
| Questions and Answers: Copyright Column by Laura Gassaway | 56 |
| Are libraries considered educational institutions? Lolly tells us. | |
| INTERNATIONAL | |
| International Dateline – An Insight Into Publishing by Rita Ricketts | 87 |
| A continuation of Benjamin Henry’s publishing adventures. | |
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