RE: Blog vs. Peer Review Final Report: Lessons Learned

["Chen, Xiaotian" <chen@bumail.bradley.edu>]

The success of blog review of one particular book over peer 
review does not draw a SCIENTIFIC conclusion that blog review is 
better, though we all agree that peer review has it own problems.

Besides, there are also some other issues with this blog review 
model. Here are two obvious ones:

*Copyright

*How can editors/publishers make their 
to-publish-or-not-to-publish decisions based on anonymous blog 
comments?

Xiaotian Chen
Bradley University Library
Peoria, Illinois
http://hilltop.bradley.edu/~chen/index.html

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From: owner-liblicense-l@lists.yale.edu on behalf of B.G. Sloan
Sent: Fri 5/15/2009 9:03 PM
To: liblicense-l@lists.yale.edu
Subject: Blog vs. Peer Review Final Report: Lessons Learned

"Last year Noah Wardrip-Fruin, an assistant professor of 
communication at the University of California at San Diego, ran 
an experiment with his latest academic book: He let readers of a 
popular blog to which he contributes peer review the book in 
public. . .  The book's publisher, MIT Press, administered a 
traditional peer review of the book, and Mr. Wardrip-Fruin was 
able to compare the two approaches."

http://chronicle.com/wiredcampus/index.php?id=3D3773

Bernie Sloan
Sora Associates
Bloomington, IN