From: Anthony Watkinson <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2012 10:39:02 +0100

A senior US librarian has raised this question with me: "I do think that
there  has to be a way devised to look at all the self-published books out
there and find a way to rate them in some professional way for libraries.
Maybe it's an opportunity for librarians to take the lead? Do you know of
any initiatives in that regard?".

I do not know of any initiatives. I know library initiatives have been
proposed over the years particularly in the seminal Raym Crow case for
institutional repositories in 2002
(see:http://works.bepress.com/ir_research/7/)
but did any involving libraries organising peer review in this way get off the
ground or are actually going strong?

Anthony