[OAI-eprints] Quality Assurance Mechanisms for Scholarship *Before* Publication

[Stevan Harnad]

See the AmSci thread:

Self-Selected Vetting vs. Peer Review: Supplement or Substitute?
http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Hypermail/Amsci/2340.html

Don't Conflate Self-Archiving with Self-Publishing
http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Hypermail/Amsci/2818.html

Stevan Harnad

On Sun, 27 Jul 2003, Gerry Mckiernan wrote:

>   For a forthcoming PowerPoint article,  I am greatly interested in
> learning about Any and All Quality Assurance Mechanisms for Scholarship
> *Before* Publication. The mechanisms that come to mind at this time
> are:
> 
> Personal Reputation
> Institutional Review
> Pride
> Self-Respect
> Professional Respect
> Peer Pressure
> "Critical Peer Response"
> Invisible College
> Self-Archiving-Process-Itself
> Open Access
> Common Sense
> Self-Correcting Dynamics
> 
> [I recognize that many of these concepts are/may be considered
> synonymous, similar, and indeed overlapping.]
> 
>    An articulation of few of the mechanism can be found in the thread
> 
> "Publication at LANL as involving peer review" in the
> American-Scientist-E-PRINT-Forum
> (e.g.,  http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Hypermail/Amsci/0336.html 
> ).
> 
>    An excellent statement of the Institutional Review concept is the
> "Guild Model" articulated by
> the late ROB KLING, LISA SPECTOR, and GEOFF McKIM in the _Journal of
> Electronic of Electronic Publishing_ [
> http://www.press.umich.edu/jep/08-01/kling.html].
> 
>   As Always, Any and All contributions, queries, comments, critiques,
> Cosmic Insights, or 'Critical Peer Responses' or Assurance Concepts
> are
> Most Welcome!
> 
>    I am particularly interested in the SELF-ARCHIVING-PROCESS-ITSELF
> as
> an assurance enhancing mechanism, namely the effect/affect on the
> quality of one's scholarship by the process of making one's
> scholarship
> more visible and accessible, with the concurrent potential of greater
> impact.
> 
>    Regards,
> 
> /Gerry
> 
> Gerry McKiernan
> Assured Librarian
> Iowa State University
> Ames IA 50011
> 
> gerrymck at iastate.edu 
> 
> 
> 
> 
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