Peer Review
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Furnace & Fugue is a born-digital edition of the 1618 book Atalanta fugiens and a very cool experiment in scholarly publishing. The book presents a musical alchemical allegory as a series of fifty emblems, each of which contains text, image, and a musical score for three voices. The digital edition includes reproductions of every page of the original publication, an English translation, newly commissioned recordings of the book’s 50 fugues, and scholarly essays contextualizing and analyzing the work. The Elephant asked four
Guest post by Katie Lee, acquisitions editor, Gallaudet University Press, and Jennifer Nelson, professor, Gallaudet University
Content Notice: [ableism, audism]
Katie Lee: I would like to situate the collaborative nature of our work as acquisitions editor and editorial board chair in the context of Gallaudet University, the world’s only bilingual (ASL and English) liberal arts university for Deaf and hard of hearing people. We not only answer to our parent university, but we (most importantly) answer to Deaf communities both
The Elephant has assembled a #PeerReviewSyllabus in conjunction with Peer Review Week. The theme for the 2021 Peer Review Week is “Identity in Peer Review.” You can follow or join the conversations online with the hashtags #PeerReviewWeek21 and #IdentityInPeerReview, or our own #FeedingtheElephant hashtag. The sources below focus on peer review in the humanities.
Peer Review Week
Peer Review Week YouTube Channel
#IdentityInPeerReview
12 Women Scholars, “A Disturbing Pattern,” Inside Higher Ed, August
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Book Wars
Jill O’Neill, “Book Wars: The Digital Revolution in Publishing,” The Scholarly Kitchen, July 20, 2021, https://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2021/07/20/book-wars-the-digital-revolution-in-publishing/
“Book Wars is […] a history, primarily focused on the disruption of mainstream publishing as it has unfolded over the initial decades of the twenty-first century. This disruption was not a single event; rather, it was a series of tumbling dominoes, created by technical innovation and resulting in cultural shifts in
Higher Ed
- American Association of University Professors, “Special Report: COVID-19 and Academic Governance,” https://www.aaup.org/report/covid-19-and-academic-governance.
"This report details an investigation of the crisis in academic governance that has occurred in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, with a focus on eight institutions: Canisius College (NY), Illinois Wesleyan University, Keuka College (NY), Marian University (WI), Medaille College (NY), National University (CA), University of Akron, and
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As we follow the topics of common interest to scholars, librarians, and publishers, the Elephant's editorial collective will be using this space to share links to news stories, updates, and announcements related to the long-term themes of interest to the forum. If you have a link you'd like us to consider in a future newsletter, please reply to this post, email us, or tag us on Twitter @HNetBookChannel.
Issues of Peer Review
“Racialized Trauma on the Tenure Track,” by Daisy Verduzco Reyes. Ins
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A guest post by Siobhan McMenemy, senior editor, Wilfrid Laurier University Press
Hannah McGregor (a professor in Simon Fraser University’s publishing program) and I began our collaborative research work in 2017. We had known each other, as scholars and press editors do, through campus visits and conference conversations, and on one such crossing of paths, we had happened upon a shared professional interest: the idea of a scholarly podcast. Though neither knew what this idea really meant, we both wanted to pursue it, and
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Guest post by Robert Cassanello, associate professor of history, University of Central Florida
The purpose of the review in our modern academic life is manifold. Reviews (book reviews specifically) inform us of newly published works that might be useful to active scholars plowing similar ground or those who might just have a cursory interest in a topic. Some writers have traced the review of books to Athens in 140 BCE, while others have anointed Photius of Constantinople in the Ninth Century CE as the first celebrated book
As we wrap-up Peer Review Week 2020, we wanted to share some practical advice with early career scholars being asked to review for the first time. I spoke with three scholars, including a journal editor, about how to approach this potentially daunting task—and why it's important to do so. Instead of a write-up, we are experimenting with audio content, so today's post comes in the form of a podcast episode. You can check out that episode here. As always, we welcome feedback and comments from our readers (and listeners) via
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Check out two new resources from the Association of University Presses:
- A panel discussion on transforming peer review for Peer Review week; and
- A new website offering answers to your questions about publishing
On September 25, join five university press editors to discuss “Trust in Peer Review” at 12 PM ET. Trust is a crucial element of successful peer review. Acquisitions editors, authors, readers, and Faculty Board members need to trust that all parties have approached the process in good faith, with the goal of making each