Facilitated Peer Review Committee
Facilitated Peer Review Committee
Facilitated Peer Review Committee Documents (Committee Charge):
- Peer Review Form for Alternative Scholarly Works
- Application for Facilitated Peer Review Support for Alternative Scholarly Works
- Letter template with specifics for pilot project
- Peer Review Guide for Peer Reviewers and Submitting Authors
Committee Meetings and Activities
The majority of the Committee's work in developing the process and supporting materials was conducted over email, as reflected in the activities and materials along with the materials from the in-person meetings.
- Meeting: February 10, 2012, 11am, Smathers Library first floor conference room
- Agenda
- Draft charge (amended and approved by the committee; then submitted to committee sponsor for approval)
- Pilot Project documentation (Academic Library Recruitment Efficacy and Outcome Study Database)
- Resources for peer review/evaluation of innovative scholarship
- Documentation/notes toward the facilitated peer review process
- Draft, brief Minutes
- February Activities
- Approved Committee Charge (Draft charge with edits shown with track changes)
- Requested copies of any/all available peer review documentation and templates from existing projects that peer review nontraditional scholarly works. These are to be used by the committee in developing templates for the facilitated peer review process. Possible templates may include: application by authors to request peer review of materials; guide/support documents for peer reviewers and facilitators.
- March Activities:
- Chair developing draft materials for review by committee, including:
- Application for authors to request peer review of nontraditional scholarly works (example from NINES)
- Letter template to peer reviewers explaining the facilitated peer review process and requesting peer review
- Peer review guide for peer reviewers and submitting authors (different from the committee’s charge; tells reviewers /authors what the review process will look like)
- Peer review form for use by peer reviewers (example journal article review sheets: one; two; three)
- Chair developing draft materials for review by committee, including:
- Meeting: April 6, 2012, 11am, Smathers Library first floor conference room
- May - July Activities:
Additional Resources
- Guidelines for Evaluating Alternative Scholarly Products (Center for the Humanities and the Public Sphere)
- Additional Resources for Evaluation of Alternative Scholarly Works (Libraries)
- For peer review across disciplines for grants, see Michelle Lamont, How Professors Think: Inside the Curious World of Academic Judgment (2009).
- For more about changes in peer review and the need for use cases for the peer review of digital scholarship, see: Diane Harley and Sophia Krzys Acord; Peer Review in Academic Promotion and Publishing: Its Meaning, Locus, and Future (2011): http://escholarship.org/uc/item/1xv148c8.
- Peer Review Primer from RIN
- Valuing & Evaluating DH [Digital Humanities] Practice, various resources from the Carolina Digital Humanities Initiative
- Article-Level Metrics: A SPARC Primer (2013)
Committee Members
- Sophia Acord, Associate Director for the Center for Humanities and the Public Sphere, College of Liberal Arts & Sciences
- Alan Dorsey, Professor of Physics and Associate Dean, College of Liberal Arts & Sciences (1/2012 - 4/2012)
- Rebecca Jefferson, Librarian for the Isser and Rae Price Library of Judaica, George A. Smathers Libraries
- Betsy Simpson, Chair of the Cataloging and Metadata Department, George A. Smathers Libraries
- Laurie Taylor, Digital Humanities Librarian, George A. Smathers Libraries (Chair)
- Ricky Telg, Professor of Agricultural Education and Communication, IFAS
Contact
Please contact Laurie Taylor (laurien@ufl.edu and 352-273-2902) with any questions.
