OpenAIRE - Workshop: "Open Peer Review: Models, Benefits and Limitations"

"OpenAIRE cordially invites you to participate in the workshop 'Open Peer Review: Models, Benefits and Limitations'. The event will take place on June 7th at Göttingen State and University Library in conjunction with the ELPUB 2016 Conference. It is aimed at publishers, journal editors, librarians, repository managers, researchers and all others who are interested in and/or dealing with new models of open peer review. Digital networked technologies are reshaping scholarly communication, yet the predominant model of peer review remains the one which has been in place since the 1950s. As this model is subject to increasing criticism for being, for example, slow, unaccountable, wasteful of resources, and lacking in incentives, it makes sense to test and examine the ways in which new technologies enable new models of peer review. While a variety of initiatives, led in the main by publishers and researchers, have to date been implemented or proposed, the academic literature around open peer review remains scarce and chaotic and the names of differing forms of open peer review vocabulary often ill-defined ..."