Referees are very rarely asked to do this, according to our recent seminar on Peer Review. However, a number of editorial offices go to considerable lengths to check every single one. Apart from anything else, if the links are incorrect/non-existent it will be impossible to create links to the original articles
Sally Sally Morris, Secretary-General Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishers South House, The Street, Clapham, Worthing, West Sussex BN13 3UU, UK Phone: 01903 871686 Fax: 01903 871457 E-mail: [email protected] ALPSP Website http://www.alpsp.org Learned Publishing is now online, free of charge, at www.learned-publishing.org ----- Original Message ----- From: "Albert Henderson" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: 29 January 2001 23:42 Subject: Re: Survey: How many refereed journals can your library NOT afford? on 1/26/2001 Sally Morris <[email protected]> asked: > Would I be very cynical to ask whether those who cite articles have > necessarily always read them? This is no more cynical than my question: Do the referees have the resources to check the citations? Albert Henderson <[email protected]>
