from peer review to page views: social networking for academics

From ‘peer’ review

to page views:

Social networking

for academics

Hello!My name is Lydia

You can find me at:

@liddylib

Agenda

◎What is Academic Social Networking?

◎ Peer Review

◎ Implications for libraries

◎ Questions

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Social

Media

Loss of personal privacy

Hard to maintain work | life balance

No personal | professional boundaries

(Gruzd, 2012)

1.Academic Social

Networking

“

Social media sites designed

specifically for scholars (Gruzd, 2012)

51+ million usersAcademia.edu

6+ million usersMendeley

11+ million usersResearchGate

Academia.edu

ResearchGate

Mendeley

Academic Social Networking Sites 101

◎ Create a research profile

◎ Build your network

◎ Create and/or join groups

◎ Participate on discussion boards

(Oh & Jeng, 2011; Krause 2012)

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Academic social

networking sites

are not

institutional

repositories

(University of California, 2014)

2.Peer Review

Closed Peer ReviewAuthor and/or reviewer identies not

revealed (single-blind or double-blind)

◎ Pros:

- Minimizes bias

◎ Cons:

- Lack of transparency

- Reviewers may give

unwarranted – feedback

- Reviewers may still be

able to identify the author

Types of Peer Review

(De Silva & Vance, 2017, pp. 81-82; Ali & Watson, 2016)

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Types of Peer Review cont’d

(De Silva & Vance, 2017, pp. 81-82; Ali & Watson, 2016)

Open Peer ReviewAuthor and reviewer identities revealed

◎ Pros:

- Greater transparency

- Reviewers give + tactful &

constuctive feedback

- Better manuscript quality

- + Research dissemination

◎ Cons:

- Longer review time

- No evidence of quality improvement

- Reviewer participation

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Types of Peer Review cont’d

Post-Publication Peer ReviewPeople provide feedback on already published

articles

◎ Pros:

- Wider group of people able to review

- Transparent

- Better manuscript quality

◎ Cons:

- Reviewers may give unwarranted –

feedback

- Irrelevant and unhelpful comments

(Ali & Watson, 2016)

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Academia.edu > Sessions

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6,000+ /dayWhoa!

(Cutler, 2015)

ResearchGate > Open Review

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So ...

Why are scholars

using these peer

review features on

academic social

networking sites?

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““If you speak to academics, they will complain about the

publishing system...It can take 12 months to get the

peer review done...

An academic should be able to get work published in 24

hours that is already peer reviewed by two people.”

~ Richard Price, CEO, Academia.edu

(Cutler, 2015)

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3.Implications for

Libraries

What can we do?

◎ Be the go-to on all copyright related issues

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◎ Bring publishing (& peer review) in-house

What can we do?

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◎Increase use of institutional repositories

What can we do?

◎ OPR plug-in for DSpace

repositories

◎ Includes published reviews,

disclosed identities, reviewer

reputation system

◎ Complete code on GitHub

(open license)

◎ More info here and here

Introducing...

Open Peer Review for repositories!

(Perakakis et al., 2017)

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Thanks!

Any questions?

You can find me at:

@liddylib

liddylib.wordpress.com

lthorne4@uwo.ca

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