Hi Satu,
Our repository policy is that we will only accept peer
reviewed materials, so we had this discussion internally when our Economics
department asked if they could put Working Papers in our repository (STORRE:
Stirling Online Research Repository).
The department argued that the Working Papers were reviewed
internally and only made available if they met whatever internal
criteria the department used (I don't know the
details!). Our IR Advisory Group therefore agreed that these papers
constituted peer reviewed material and we now take them in our repository (as
well as then automatically making the metadata available for harvesting by the
RePEC archive - an Economics subject based CR).
We are currently having the same discussion regarding
Technical Reports from our Computing Science department, but this doesn't seem
so clear cut!
So, to paraphrase Charles Oppenheim's reply - if it's been
reviewed by peers, it's peer reviewed!
I hope that helps.
Mike
STORRE Manager
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Hello All,
Would you consider working paper series coming from a
department at a university to be peer-reviewed or not?
Thanks
Satu
Ms Satu Nieminen
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