improving the quality of peer review

[Joachim.Meier@ptb.de]

In the field of the Earth Sciences there is a smart Golden Road
OA publisher, which originated from a Max-Planck institute:

http://publications.copernicus.org/objectives.html

and which is running a transparent public peer review process
accompanied by a public interactive discussion on submitted
papers.

Who is interested in details may view the presentation
"Interactive Open Access Publishing & Collaborative Peer Review
for improved scientific communication and quality assurance"  of
an editor in chief given at the last year's open access days in
Berlin:

http://open-access.net/fileadmin/OAT/Poeschl_OAT_Berlin2008_up6.pdf (700
kByte)

In my opinion this is a convincing way of Golden Road OA.

Regards
Joachim Meier
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