Google Docs--Open Peer Review

Created a new private google docs was one of my assignments from ALES204. Google Docs is a wed based data storage service which is provided by google, we are supposed to share a document with other people and all we can edit it in the meanwhile. I did not really know this interesting web tool, and others such as Linkedin and Audioboo so on, until I learned them from ALES 204.


For my first google docs assignment, we need to discuss what is open peer review. I would like to share some information about open peer review on my blog, and then more people are able to read it. As we know that publishers have played important roles in academic communication due to the fact that academic journals are mainly issued by publishers, while being reviewed by professionals within the field. Open peer review compared to the traditional single blind and double blind peer review models has emerged recently, in which way both authors and editors show their names to each others. Open peer review is usually considered as a transparent and open scientific peer review process. Traditionally, the process of peer view is long and cumbersome. Only few articles could be accepted and many splendid articles never come to light because of the relentless competition to publish, also, editors` bias may impact publish possibility. Thus, features, such as transparency and openness, of open peer review are required for every steps of journal publishing.


However, it is worth saying that traditional review process provides a high standard to maintain article quality. As more articles can be published through many different manners, open access is one of modern publishing ways. Therefore, peer review is an important process to ensure the quality, credibility, accuracy and precise of academic articles. Open peer review provides a possible of efficiency communication between authors and editors compared anonymous peer review. Whereas, whether reviewers are professional and expert in the given fields of studies is a common problem concerned for open peer review.