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