As David Durling mentioned, he and I have been discussing these issues
and it seemed to us that it would be possible to set up a parallel
review process for students to get involved as blind reviewers and see
the "real" reviewers in action without compromising the proper reviews.
Although the OCS conference software is still quite difficult to use at
the moment, if it continues to develop as promised it offers a good
environment for this as we can enrol students as reviewers, send them
blind review invitations and let them have blind copies of the real
reviewer's feedback and recommendations. What is needed is a support
method in their own institution so a group of student reviewers can
share experiences.
So we will look at this as possible policy for future DRS conferences.
Incidentally, I recommend everybody to look at the open review system in
use on many of the open-access journals at biomedcentral.com. This
solves all those problems at a stroke as reviewers and authors are not
anonymous (so they are polite and helpful to each other), developing
versions of the papers are all available to see and anybody can add
comments. An instant learning environment. The EAD Bremen conference
experimented with semi-open review but I feel it has to be either
completely open or completely blind.
best wishes from sunny Sheffield
Chris
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Professor Chris Rust
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Sheffield Hallam University, S11 8UZ, UK
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