I had assumed that is what Suzanne was alluding to: the increasing
awareness and use of open access archives, rather than the
compunction to publish via an established publishing house. This
does not preclude peer-review. I would hope that the onus will be on
the author to get their work peer reviewed in any circumstance. That
said, I've read many an article whose peer reviewers must have been
dead to have got to publication. I feel there is room also to use
the web sensibly for non-peer reviewed research dissemination.
Research projects or organisations that use blogs to spread news and
information about research developments provide good fora for
publishing stuff that either isn't suitable for an article or else
has sprung from the desire to self-publish findings and opinions,
unedited. The research project I am currently engaged in is trialing
the use of a blog to disseminate our research
(www.scambimedievali.org.uk). It's in its early stages at the moment.
I'd like to bring to MCG's attention, very recent research completed
on this subject, by James Allen whose dissertation contains some
interesting findings.
http://eprints.rclis.org/archive/00005180
Tehmina
On 3 Feb2006, at 12:32, Bruce Royan wrote:
> What is "already on the way", is that more and more universities and
> research institutions (1) are archiving copies of their researchers'
> peer-reviewed, published articles onto online Institutional
> Repositories, so
> that they can be accessed for free. This is done with the agreement
> of an
> increasing number of publishers (2), who are beginning to realise
> that it
> won't harm their journal sales, and is inevitable anyway if the
> Research
> Councils hold their nerve and make it a condition of funding (3).
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