tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21165575.post3232915314104011445..comments2024-03-10T20:46:19.274-04:00Comments on In the Middle: An experiment in peer reviewCord J. Whitakerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06224143153295429986noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21165575.post-14238407997321738242010-07-27T17:12:08.090-04:002010-07-27T17:12:08.090-04:00Sure, Jeff -- chat offblog?
Something to add, af...Sure, Jeff -- chat offblog? <br /><br />Something to add, after reading Jennifer Howard's article in the CHE today about this experiment: none of it could have happened without the expertise and support of MediaCommons and Kathleen Fitzpatrick. Her experiment with Planned Obsolescence was a model for us and Chapter One of that study (on the history and future of peer review) is essential reading for anyone considering undertaking such an experiment.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21165575.post-20933232861977214172010-07-27T08:35:10.452-04:002010-07-27T08:35:10.452-04:00Kathy, we'd love to feature your reflections o...Kathy, we'd love to feature your reflections on the SQ open peer review process here at ITM. Would you consider doing a guest post?Jeffrey Cohenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17346504393740520542noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21165575.post-28673422010178133802010-07-26T10:07:49.681-04:002010-07-26T10:07:49.681-04:00Jeff, thanks so much for the thoughtful digest. Fo...Jeff, thanks so much for the thoughtful digest. For folks (such as Eileen) interested in testing this ground in similar ways, I'd be happy to share the insights gleaned from our experience at SQ, if that's useful.<br /><br />best regards,<br /><br />KatherineAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21165575.post-56645748739747821072010-07-26T09:51:48.296-04:002010-07-26T09:51:48.296-04:00Thanks so much for putting this up, Jeffrey; we...Thanks so much for putting this up, Jeffrey; we're very excited about this issue and hope to get a lot of responses to it.<br /><br />Mimi Godfrey<br />Managing Editor<br /><i>Shakespeare Quarterly</i><br />Folger Shakespeare LibraryAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21165575.post-57265275551149764102010-07-23T15:52:10.104-04:002010-07-23T15:52:10.104-04:00We're going to do something similar to this in...We're going to do something similar to this in the "Becoming-Media" issue of "postmedieval" being co-edited by Jen Boyle and Martin Foys in 2012. I can't say more about it yet except to say that this particular issue of the Shakespeare Quarterly *inspired* their idea. Stay tuned! Of course, I think what SQ did is simply brilliant [if at times, I assume, exhausting to read/take in all at once?].Eileen Joyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13756965845120441308noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21165575.post-37835257268509142592010-07-22T13:06:50.504-04:002010-07-22T13:06:50.504-04:00This is extraordinary stuff, Jeffrey. Thanks for p...This is extraordinary stuff, Jeffrey. Thanks for posting it. I've not quite understood yet the opposition to peer review, or blind review, or the various other traditional systems of review, although I'm beginning to understand the arguments that they tend towards the antidemocratic and the service of an old boys' network (whatever the age or gender of the boys). But I also think that the minimal comments from reviewers (who, after all, have only so much time to volunteer) are probably just not enough most of the time. An open review of this sort would provide the kind of mass expertise that could go a long way towards producing not only more democratic forms of scholarship but also BETTER scholarship.<br /><br />I'm a BIT disappointed that the essays so considered are themselves concerned with material that's so 'of the now.' I suppose it's a natural fit, but I look forward to seeing this done with, say, paleography, numismatics, or whatever you believe hoary scholarship to be taking place.<br /><br />Welcome back. We too encountered the East Coast storm in our flight. It was terrifying.Karl Steelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03353370018006849747noreply@blogger.com