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AGAINST THE GRAIN
TABLE OF CONTENTS
v.21 #3 June 2009 © Katina Strauch
ISSUES, NEWS, & GOINGS ON
Letters to the Editor............................ 6
Deadlines .............................................. 6
FEATURES
Trends: What’s up With Peer Review?
Guest Editor, Irving Rockwood
Peer Review: The History, the Issues,
by Irving Rockwood — Peer review is a much
more important and more exciting topic than it
might first appear.
Current Peer Review Practice and
Perceptions: The v iew from the Field.... 20
by Mark Ware — Responses were received from
over 3,000 academics from around the world
who completed an online survey in late 2007.
PLoS ONE: New Approaches and
Initiatives in the Evolution of the
Academic Journal ............................. 24
by Peter Binfield — The PLoS ONE peer review
process focuses on the objective assessment of
scientific rigor and research integrity.
Interactive Open Access Peer Review:
The Atmospheric Chemistry and
Physics Model .................................... 26
by ulrich Pöschl — The editorial and
citation statistics of ACP clearly demonstrate that
interactive open access peer review indeed
facilitates and enhances scientific
communication and quality assurance.
The Open Scholarship Full
Disclosure Initiative: A Subversive
Proposal ............................................34
by Gary Hall — Gary proposes the “Open
Scholarship Full Disclosure Initiative” as a
supplement to Stevan Harnad’s “subversive
proposal.”
The Odd Case of Book Reviews ......40
by David Shatz — Book reviews differ from
most scholarly publications in a glaring
respect: they are not peer reviewed.
Op Ed................................................50
The Implicatio (...truncated)