Thomas H. P. Gould

Do We Still Need Peer Review? (eBook, ePUB)

An Argument for Change

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

The current peer review process is broken and unless changes are made it will soon die. In Do We Still Need Peer Review?, author Thomas H.P. Gould examines the evolution of peer review from the earliest attempts by the Church to evaluate scholarly works to the creation of academic peer review and finally to the current status of the process. Gould argues that without an immediate effort by scholars to institute reform, the future of peer review may cease to exist. As new technology provides authors with a direct, unsupervised route to publication, the peer review situation is nearing a tipping point, beyond which the nature of academic research will be profoundly altered. This book proposes that rather than tossing out peer review altogether, the process can be saved and made stronger, offering suggestions on how to do just that.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 184
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. November 2012
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780810885752
• Artikelnr.: 41684053

Autorenporträt

Thomas H. P. Gould is professor of journalism and mass communications and chair of the advertising sequence at the A.Q. Miller School of Journalism and Mass Communications at Kansas State University. He is the author of Tracking Peer Review: Past, Present, and a Questionable Future (2012) and Creating the Academic Commons: Guidelines for Learning, Teaching, and Research (2011).

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
Acknowledgements
Chapter 1: What Is Peer Review and Why Do We Need It?
Chapter 2: Early Peer Review
Chapter 3: Peer Review 1600-1950
Chapter 4: Anonymous, Double-Blind Peer Review
Chapter 5: The Rise of the Internet, the Supremacy of the Individual
Chapter 6: Recent Suggested Solutions
Chapter 7: Option One - Eliminate Peer Review (partially and totally)
Chapter 8: Can We Review Ourselves?
Chapter 9: Private Industry and Academic Associations Solve It All (But Are
Tenure Committees Left Holding the Bag?)
Chapter 10: The Future of Peer Review: What Have We Lost and What Can We
Gain?
In Closing