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Colleagues/

I have been invited to write a review of Open Peer Review initiatives[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peer_review#Dynamic_and_open_peer_review]

While I have written about various novel publication initiatives over the past several years, e.g.,

*E is for Everything: The Extra-Ordinary, Evolutionary [E-]Journal,* The Serials Librarian 41, nos. 3-4 (2002):293-321. Self-archived at

[http://www.public.iastate.edu/~gerrymck/Eis4.pdf] (accessed 21 April 2008).

[ http://www.ardengallery.com/Chubbuck/sc-green-pear-with-zipper-open.htm]

and created blogs and prepared presentations devoted to Alternative Peer Review and "Scholarship 2.0" with profiles of a variety of efforts and publications that have focused on "traditional" Open Peer Review and other forms of "Disruptive Scholarship"

[http://scholarship20.blogspot.com/]

[http://disruptivescholarship.blogspot.com/]

[http://scholarship20.blogspot.com/2007/11/disruptive-scholarship.html]

[http://www.public.iastate.edu/~gerrymck/APR-1.ppt] [Large File]

I wish to take a wider view of Open Review by Peers that includes current efforts, notably initiatives in which 'peers' assess the value and/or importance of an article/manuscript before and/or after 'formal' 'publication.'

I am particularly interested in projects such as

chemistry.org/exchange
[http://scitechnet.blogspot.com/2007/11/chemistryorgexchange.html]

Economics: A Public Peer Reviewed e-Journal
[http://scholarship20.blogspot.com/2007/12/economics-new-type-of-academic-journal.html]

Nature Network
[http://scitechnet.blogspot.com/2007/10/nature-network.html]

PoLS One
[http://scitechnet.blogspot.com/2007/12/plos-one-post-publication-peer-reviewed.html]

Thanks For Your Assistance!

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/Gerry