Peer Review Process

Hugh Gusterson suggests that academics should be financially rewarded for their contribution to the production of peer-reviewed research . This article generated many comments which explore nuances of the issue.

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Scholarly Communication

Bianca Kramer and Jeroen Bosman developed a graphic illustrating developments in scholarly communication which have occured in the past fifteen years.

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Academia.edu

Jeffrey R. Young champions an academic social network called Academia.edu which is designed to help disseminate academic papers for comment. It is hoped that the comment and revision process will endow the papers with academic rigor, similar to that of peer review.

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Annotum

ANNOTUM.ORG automates the peer-review process for scholarly academic publishing. On May 1, 2012, Google is discontinuing a similar project called Knol. Documents created using Knol may be transferred to ANNOTUM without a charge.

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