Date: Wed, 06 Dec 2000 14:38:06 -0600
From: Gerry Mckiernan <GMCKIERN@GWGATE.LIB.IASTATE.EDU>
Subject: Open Peer Review E-Journals

                             _Open Peer Review E-Journals_

   I am greatly interested in identifying as many Open Peer Review E-Journals
as possible. The Open Peer Review may be described as a review process in which the reviewers of submitted manuscripts are known to the author(s) of the manuscript and/or the working manuscript is made available prior to 'formal' publication to a virtual community of peers for review, commentary and/or rating .

  Two examples of electronic Open Peer Review  E-Journals are:

      _Journal of Interactive Media in Education (JIME)_

      [  http://www-jime.open.ac.uk/]
      [For an excellent graphic on the Open Peer Review process in
      JIME see [ http://www-jime.open.ac.uk/about.html#lifecycle ]
      For an extensive discussion of the process in JIME see
       _Redesigning the Peer Review Process: A Developmental
       Theory-in-Action_
       [http://www2.kmi.open.ac.uk/tr/tr.cfm?trnumber=96   ]

      _Psycoloquy_
      [  http://www.princeton.edu/~harnad/psyc.html ]
      [For an overview of the Open Peer process in Psycoloquy
      see for example _Implementing Peer Review on the Net:
      Scientific Quality Control in Scholarly Electronic Journals_
[http://www.cogsci.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Papers/Harnad/harnad96.peer.review.html ] or select other papers by Stevan Harnad, a major advocate of Open Peer Review [  http://cogsci.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/intpub.html ]

       As Always, Any and All candidates, contributions, queries, comments, questions,  critiques, appeals, criticisms, cosmic insights, etc. are Most Appreciated. Significant articles, reports and/or studies of the Open Peer  Review Process are also of great interest!

       Regards,

/Gerry McKiernan
Open Librarian
Iowa State University
Ames IA 50011

gerrymck@iastate.edu

               " The Best Way to Predict the Future is to Openly Critique It!"
                                         With Apologies to Alan Kay