It's funny, most organizations point to our community as am example of how to manage such things with volunteers.
Another example: law reviews offer an excellent and widely reproduced model where the most esteemed publications are run by students. On Sep 24, 2012 6:33 PM, "George Herbert" <[email protected]> wrote: > On Mon, Sep 24, 2012 at 2:52 PM, Richard Farmbrough > <[email protected]> wrote: > > On 24/09/2012 03:49, Risker wrote: > >> > >> the costs of peer review > > > > I have academics complaining to me that they don't get paid for peer > review, > > so I'm not sure what these costs are. > > Someone has to edit the magazine, pre-accept papers, and handle the > peer reviews. > > Peer review logistics is non-trivial - identifying reviewers, ensuring > the reviewers review, on time, and making sure they did their work and > sorting it out if the answer is neither unambiguously yes or no, etc. > > I just went through this process on a system administration paper for > the LISA conference this year; their peer reviews were significantly > lower impact (few paragraphs per reviewer) and done with anonymity and > visibility to the author via a web tool. They still have a couple of > people at HQ handling the logistics of the system and related > paperwork, plus the conference chair, plus the paper's individual > Shepherd (introduced recently). I think they only pay their HQ staff, > but still non-trivial effort. Hundreds of dollars a paper, at least, > and much less than other more scientific papers would take (I think). > > They're not charging authors or authors' companies/universities, and > the papers are open-access. They appear to handle it as conference > overhead, and charge for the conferences. > > Probably can't do that for most journals, and ads with a conflict of > interest are taken badly... > > > -- > -george william herbert > [email protected] > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-l mailing list > [email protected] > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l > _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l
