LOEX of the West presentation, 2008

Peer Review 2.0: Tomorrow’s Scholarship for Today’s Students

LOEX of the West, Las Vegas

Anne-Marie Deitering & Kate Gronemyer

WEB 2.0 BACKGROUND

Five Web 2.0 themes — from the ACRL Instruction Section’s Current Issues Discussion Forum, Research Instruction in a Web 2.0 World (Annual, 2006).

DANAH BOYD EXAMPLES

{Edit: These didn’t make it into the presentation, but they are examples of some discussions on the web over the last year that started our thinking on this topic.}

danah boyd – open-access is the future: boycott locked-down academic journals

• good response from Ann Galloway – Boycott? I think not. (Purse Lip Square Jaw)
• response thread on AIR-L (Association of Internet Researchers)

danah boyd – Viewing American Class Divisions through Facebook and MySpace

• Response from Andrew Keating – ‘Digital Divide’ meets Web 2.0? Ridiculous and Poorly Written Article
• Short discussion at TeleRead
• BBC article – “Social Sites Reveal Class Divide”

danah boyd – editing a special issue of JCMC

NORMAL SCIENCE & INNOVATIONS

• Thomas Kuhn, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions
• The Paradigm Concept — Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
• Coping with Peer Rejection – Nature

PEER REVIEW, QUALITY CONTOL & FRAUD

• Fiona Godlee (et al), “Effect on the Quality of Peer Review of Blinding Reviewers and Asking them to Sign their Reports,” JAMA, 280 (1998)
• Scientific Misconduct: Bell Labs Fires Physicist Found Guilty of Forging Data, Science (4 October 2002)

DISTRIBUTING PROFESSIONAL REWARDS

• 2006 Report of the MLA Task Force on Evaluation Scholarship for Tenure and Promotion (opens in PDF)
• This is Scholarship (video). Catherine C. Braun & Kenneth L. Gilbert, KAIROS, volume 12:3
• Piled Higher and Deeper (webcomic)

WHAT IF WE IGNORE NEW MODELS?

• Michael Gorman, Jabberwiki: The Educational Response, Part II

NEW MODELS

Current Anthropology

Expressive Processing: An Experiment in Blog-Based Peer Review – Noah Waldrip Fruin on Grand Text Auto

Cognitive Daily blog

ScienceBlogs – The World’s Largest Conversation about Science

BPR3: Bloggers for Peer-Reviewed Research Reporting — Icons

CiteULike

UsefulChem Wiki

Radiology Wiki

Open Notebook Science Using Blogs and Wikis (Jean-Claude Bradley, at Nature Precedings)

Rrresearch Blog

“The Academic Manuscript” — Wicked Anomie: Sociology Run Amok

Welcome to Nature Precedings

EDITED TO ADD:

Barbara Fister points to this article in the Chronicle:  Certifying Online Research (Gary Olson), about the challenges of evaluating online publications.  See also Barbara’s post at ACRLog: Peer (to Peer) Review.