Peer Review
Relationship Building for More Equitable Publishing
Guest post by Katie Lee, acquisitions editor, Gallaudet University Press, and Jennifer Nelson, professor, Gallaudet University
Content Notice: [ableism, audism]
#PeerReviewSyllabus
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 Elephant Roundup
An occasional newsletter from the editors of Feeding the Elephant: A Forum for Scholarly Communications.
The scholarly podcast, a scholar-publisher collaboration
A post from Feeding the Elephant: A Forum for Scholarly Communications.
A guest post by Siobhan McMenemy, senior editor, Wilfrid Laurier University Press
The Podcast Review and Reviewing Born-Digital Scholarly Works
A post from Feeding the Elephant: A Forum for Scholarly Communications.
Guest post by Robert Cassanello, associate professor of history, University of Central Florida
Advice for First-Time Peer Reviewers
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.
Upcoming "Trust in Peer Review" panel discussion and AskUP website from AUPresses
A post from Feeding the Elephant: A Forum for Scholarly Communications.
Check out two new resources from the Association of University Presses:
Journal Peer Review: Tips for Being an Effective Reviewer
Guest post by Michael Chibnik, Emeritus Professor of Anthropology, University of Iowa
Working with Your Editor: Ten FAQS about Book Peer Review
A post from Feeding the Elephant: A Forum for Scholarly Communications.
As Peer Review Week approaches, I wanted to share answers to some of the questions I get asked most often. The theme of #PeerReviewWk20 is trust. I hope these answers contribute to trust in peer review by fostering candid conversations about publishing in general and helping to demystify the peer review process specifically.
Transparency in Peer Review
A Conversation with Amy Brand (Director of MIT Press) and Jessica Polka (Executive Director of ASAPBio) by Catherine Cocks (Editor-in-Chief at Michigan State University Press)
Opening post: Peer Review Week
Welcome to the inaugural posts of Feeding the Elephant, a forum for conversations about scholarly communications in the arts, humanities, and social sciences. We begin by looking at one of the elements that makes academic publishing distinctive: peer review. Scholars who want to have their research taken seriously by their discipline have to publish it in a peer-reviewed form, whether that’s a journal article or a monograph or something else.
Quality in Peer Review: An AUPresses Conversation
Feeding the Elephant readers will be interested in this public conversation about "quality" in peer review, taking place this Thursday, September 19, at 4 p.m., EDT. Announcement and details below.
Quality in Peer Review: An AUPresses Conversation