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> Date: Mon, 03 Mar 1997 08:34:58 +1100
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> Editorial Comment - The Medical Journal of Australia has also been conducting
> a trial in this area. A report should be available soon on the work.
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> Date: Sun, 2 Mar 1997 14:31:48 +1100
> To: [log in to unmask]
> From: [log in to unmask] (Tony Barry)
> Subject: SCHOLARS PROPOSE STRENGTHENING PEER REVIEW ELECTRONICALLY
>
> >From EDUPAGE-
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> >SCHOLARS PROPOSE STRENGTHENING PEER REVIEW ELECTRONICALLY
> >An editor at The Journal of the American Medical Association and an adjunct
> >professor of medicine at the University of California at San Francisco have
> >recommended an electronic peer-review system that would allow researchers to
> >have ready access to all comments related to a particular paper through a
> >consolidated database. Editors could review readers' comments, request
> >responses from authors, and update the database on a quarterly basis.
> >Journals could make publishing a work conditional upon such participation,
> >and people who submit comments would be required to disclose any conflicts
> >of interest or affiliations that might affect their response. (Chronicle of
> >Higher Education 28 Feb 97)
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