A Collaborative Approach to Open Peer Review

"Those in the humanities often champion collaboration and the open exchange of ideas, but you wouldn't necessarily know that when you look at the venues they use to share their work. Hybrid Pedagogy seeks to challenge not only how humanists teach, but also how they publish. The six-year-old online journal pursues humanistic values by embracing an editorial process well-established in the sciences: open peer review.

Hybrid Pedagogy’s editorial process is uncommonly inclusive. Whereas many academic journals prize selectivity, Hybrid Pedagogy accepts the vast majority of submissions—about 70 percent, according to the current editor—with the expectation that authors and reviewers work hand-in-glove to revise essays. The resulting articles are short (by academic standards), visually engaging, widely circulated, and more personal and political than those in traditional academic publications."