Dear Ecolog, Announcing a new model for open peer review - launching soon from Queen's University:
Science Open Reviewed: An online community connecting authors with reviewers for journals<http://library.queensu.ca/ojs/index.php/IEE/article/view/4475/4524>. science-open-reviewed.com<http://science-open-reviewed.com/> provides AUTHORS with: * a personal page for posting titles/abstracts of papers that authors wish to have peer reviewed; * a registry listing of available reviewers for authors to contact to negotiate a review; * liaison for arranging any negotiated reviewer remuneration, to ensure that reviews are well executed and timely; * registration of their peer-reviewed papers (and their reviews), ready for perusal by journal editors; * optional publication of their registered peer-reviewed papers-for a nominal author fee of $100 (waived for 2013)-in Proceedings of Science Open Reviewed<http://library.queensu.ca/ojs/index.php/ProcSciOR/>. science-open-reviewed.com<http://science-open-reviewed.com/> provides REVIEWERS with: * a personal page for advertising their reviewing services; * a reputation economy, by publishing a record of previous reviewing service; * a listing of posted papers available for reviewing, and author contact information for making an offer to review; * liaison for arranging any negotiated remuneration for reviewing - as fair and motivating compensation for professional service; * registration of their reviews linked to registered papers that are ready for perusal by journal editors; * optional and free publication of their peer-reviewed reviewer commentary/response papers in Proceedings of Science Open Reviewed<http://library.queensu.ca/ojs/index.php/ProcSciOR/>. science-open-reviewed.com<http://science-open-reviewed.com/> provides EDITORS with: * a registry listing of peer-reviewed papers-and their reviews-for which offers can be made to authors for publication in the editors' journals. ________________________________ Lonnie W. Aarssen ________________________________ Professor Department of Biology Queen's University Kingston, ON Canada, K7L 3N6 Editor Ideas in Ecology and Evolution http://library.queensu.ca/ojs/index.php/IEE ________________________________ Campus office: Room 4326, Biosciences Complex Email: [email protected] Web: http://post.queensu.ca/~aarssenl/ Tel: 613-533-6133 Fax: 613-533-6617
