4 Scholarly Forms of ePublishing:

The Work of an Editor of a Scientific Journal

 

Schneider, Andreas and Mike Sosteric. 2001. “Seven Years of Electronic Publishing: The Electronic Journal of Sociology.”  Footnotes September/October 6:14.

 

 

Media

·       Web-born eJournals

·       WWW representation of printed journals

 

 

Access

·       Subscription based

·       Open access

o     Subsidized

o     Payment by the author

 

Quality Control

·       Moderated

·       Peer reviewed

 

 

 

Review Process

 

Why review?

 

·       The editor cannot be a specialist for all aspects of the contributions.

·       Get second opinion

·       Avoid Cronyism

 

Recruiting Reviewers

 

In the selection process the editor is in a dilemma:

·       To avoid conflict of interests or partiality, the reviewer tries to avoid using close colleagues of the author as reviewers.

·       People closest to the author know best about his work.

 

Anonymity

·       "single-masked" or “blind”

 

 

Different styles of reviews

 

 

Example: SPQ PDF file

Used by current editor Gary Alan Fine and the previous editor Spencer Cahill

 


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