From: Dan Scott <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Tue, 18 Dec 2012 09:26:03 +0000
Hi Sandy
Like thousands of other OA journals, we are using Open Journal Systems
(http://pkp.sfu.ca/?q=ojs) which requires all volunteer reviewers and
authors to register with us. However, this is confidential information and
we won't be publishing those details. We have a broad spread of both
nationalities and disciplinary expertise and this is growing all the time,
but you're right - it is not exhaustive, and when we receive papers for
which we do not have the appropriate reviewing knowledge, we will look
externally to ensure that it is done properly.
Kind regards
DAN
-----Original Message-----
From: Sandy Thatcher <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Sun, 16 Dec 2012 22:49:22 -0600
Is there a list of these 100 registered reviewers publicly posted anywhere?
And why are reviewers "registered" anyway? Normally, a journal goes to find
the best reviewer anywhere, not just limit the selection to a predetermined
list. For a journal that claims to cover all of the social sciences, 100
would seem to be a severely inadequate number to draw upon.
Sandy Thatcher
> From: Dan Scott <[log in to unmask]>
> Date: Fri, 14 Dec 2012 11:11:53 +0000
>
> Stevan: A correction: as the press release and our editorial policy
> make clear, we carry out a full peer review. We also have over 100
> registered referees.
>
> Dan Scott
>
> On 14 Dec 2012, at 01:11, LIBLICENSE <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
>> From: Stevan Harnad <[log in to unmask]>
>> Date: Thu, 13 Dec 2012 18:23:13 -0500
>>
>> Here is the kind of "membership" deal Nottingham has just signed:
>>
>> "All you can publish" for a year, from a no-track-record journal
>> with Mr William Martin Modrow and Mr Dan Scott as its editors and a
>> team of web-recruited volunteers.
>>
>> For years I and others had been repeating: "The purpose of OA is to
>> free peer-reviewed research from access-tolls, not to free research
>> from peer review."
>>
>> Finch's folly looks like it's instead steering (some) UK
>> institutions toward the latter.
>
> >
> > Lay back, consider social science research, and think of England...
> >
> > Stevan Harnad
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