Scholarly Electronic Publication Reviews in Short Supply

Created by William J. Allen (Arkansas State University) on December 22, 2005

The Bryn Mawr Classical Review has wonderful materials for academics interested in classical and medieval studies. The Editor's Disk (yes, disk), laments the difficulty in getting people to review materials on the WWW.

But if it is true that reviewers are so strongly enticed by the prospect of a free book or a free CD that absent such an enticement they are unwilling to come forward, then we will soon be at an impasse, as more and more important material becomes available in a form unsusceptible to the enticement of reviewers. Now the future of reviewing itself is a subject of interest to us, not least because one of us will be participating in a panel on that subject at the APA meetings in Montreal, but we are for now convinced that the first and most obvious way forward is to insure that serious scholarly work, however published, gets serious scholarly reviews.

See http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/bmcr/2005/2005-12-20.html

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		Scholarly Electronic Publication Reviews in Short Supply Created by William J. Allen (Arkansas State University) on December 22, 2005 The Bryn Mawr Classical Review has wonderful materials for academics interested in classical and medieval studies. The Editor's Disk (yes, disk), laments the difficulty in getting people to review materials on the WWW. But if it is true that reviewers are so strongly enticed by the prospect of a free book or a free CD that absent such an enticement they are unwilling to come forward, then we will soon be at an impasse, as more and more important material becomes available in a form unsusceptible to the enticement of reviewers. Now the future of reviewing itself is a subject of interest to us, not least because one of us will be participating in a panel on that subject at the APA meetings in Montreal, but we are for now convinced that the first and most obvious way forward is to insure that serious scholarly work, however published, gets serious scholarly reviews. See http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/bmcr/2005/2005-12-20.html academics \| classical \| medieval \| participatory scholarship \| scholarship \| WWW William's blog Login or register to post comments 4163 reads
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