Surprisingly enough, those reviews are copyrighted by their authors,
automatically, even though the authors are anonymous. So, you can't
publish them. You could assign them to a class in the same way you
could assign other copyrighted materials, and you could write about
them (with quotations) under the same fair use guidelines that apply
to any other copyrighted material.
At least, that's my understanding (I am not a lawyer).
Hal Caswell
On Mar 1, 2010, at 6:09 PM, Jonathan Greenberg wrote:
Interesting -- I'm primarily interested in reviews YOU receive on your
own submitted manuscript (which, 99% of the time, you don't know who
they are from) -- are you allowed to post these in any public forum?
Since the reviews cannot be linked back to an individual (unless that
individual steps forward and takes credit for it), and it is a
criticism of your own work, it seems like one should feel free to post
these if you want. I was interested in compiling the types of reviews
people get on manuscripts for teaching purposes, so I'm trying to find
out if its legit for people to share these reviews with me if they end
up going out into the public (e.g. on a website)?
--j
On Mon, Mar 1, 2010 at 3:07 PM, Jonathan Greenberg
<[email protected]> wrote:
Interesting -- I'm primarily interested in reviews YOU receive on
your
own submitted manuscript (which, 99% of the time, you don't know who
they are from) -- are you allowed to post these in any public forum?
Since the reviews cannot be linked back to an individual (unless that
individual steps forward and takes credit for it), and it is a
criticism of your own work, it seems like one should feel free to
post
these if you want. I was interested in compiling the types of
reviews
people get on manuscripts for teaching purposes, so I'm trying to
find
out if its legit for people to share these reviews with me if they
end
up going out into the public (e.g. on a website)?
--j
On Mon, Mar 1, 2010 at 2:16 PM, Christopher Brown
<[email protected]> wrote:
Jonathan,
As it so happens, a message close to yours in my email folder was
from a
review I did for American Naturalist. As part of the message from
the
editor is the line "Please keep all reviews, including your own,
confidential." Thus, at least for Am Nat, it appears that the
reviews
should remain unpublished in any form.
CAB
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Chris Brown
Associate Professor
Dept. of Biology, Box 5063
Tennessee Tech University
Cookeville, TN 38505
email: [email protected]
website: iweb.tntech.edu/cabrown
-----Original Message-----
From: Ecological Society of America: grants, jobs, news
[mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Jonathan Greenberg
Sent: Monday, March 01, 2010 12:48 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: [ECOLOG-L] Are reviews anonymous?
Quick question that came up recently that I was curious about -- I
know
REVIEWERS are anonymous, but are the reviews you get supposed to be
anonymous, or can they be posted in a public forum?
--j
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Hal Caswell
Senior Scientist
Biology Department
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
Woods Hole MA 02543
508-289-2751
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