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Re: Submissions and reviews (was: Re: [jox] New submission: Germ form theory - conceptual frame)



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Hi Stefan, all

In terms of contacting reviewers I think this is one area where the all open, all the time policy might have to show a bit of flex. It might be counter-productive to publicly address people, as the might have private reasons for declining or postponing contributions, or they might miss the message altogether. So I will write to people off-list and ask them.
I am waiting for a contribution to a short exchange before doing this.

cheers

Mathieu

----- Original Message -----
From: Stefan Merten <smerten oekonux.de>
Date: Monday, April 19, 2010 8:52 pm
Subject: Submissions and reviews (was: Re: [jox] New submission: Germ form theory - conceptual frame)
To: journal oekonux.org

Hi Mathieu and all!

BTW: Should the submissions from George be moved to one of the
sub-categories?

While thinking about it: Plone has a feature called "Categorization".
You find it when you "edit" some content and click the
"Categorization" tab. There you can tag the content with 
categories -
i.e. keywords attached to the content. And you can create
"collections" which are perspectives on some other contents by
configurable criteria. I'll create an example when I'm back 
online and
have the time.

Last week (8 days ago) Mathieu ONeil wrote:
We have our first proper paper proposal. We need some 
reviewers. As this is a political philosophy text I'm thinking 
Lincoln Dahlberg and Johan Soderberg [plus anyone else whose 
name finishes in 'berg' ;-)] would be good candidates. But how 
do we do it? Does the editor request these reviewer's 
contribution or sort of put it out there that reviewers are 
needed and uh wait? That wont work: so people: can or can't?

AFAICS your last proposal in this regard has not been disputed:

  Last month (58 days ago) Mathieu ONeil wrote:
  > 7-CSPP
  > peer review process: main stages
  > 
  > Prospective authors submit a proposal to the list.
  > 
  > All list members vet this proposal during a reasonable 
period of time (1-2 weeks?): is it appropriate for the journal, 
are arguments or references missing?
  > 
  > Authors write their submission.
  > 
  > Authors submit to the journal.
  > 
  > The submission is posted by the editor to a password-
protected part of the website [mailing list?] who also alerts 
the main journal list that he has done so.
  > 
  > The editor suggests two expert reviewers (volunteers 
welcome).  > 
  > The two expert reviewers read and evaluate the 
submission during a reasonable period of time (3 weeks?). 
Reviewers are encouraged to coordinate their
  > review.
  > 
  > Reviewers post their reviews and recommendations to a 
password-protected part of site [mailing list?] and alert the 
list that they have done so.
  > 
  > The list discusses this during a reasonable period of 
time (1-2 weeks?).
  > 
  > During this time consensus emerges: publish, revise and 
resubmit (to two other reviewers, for example?), or
  > 
  > During this time consensus does not emerge: the 
decision then moves to a formal vote on the Governance Board: 
publish, revise and resubmit
  > (to two other reviewers, for example) or reject.
  > 
  > Submission and review process published.
  > 
  > Readers can comment and rate.
  > 
  > Authors can respond in comments section [and add links 
in the text to relevant comments and responses - no updating of 
text though].

  -- http://www.oekonux.org/journal/list/archive/msg00233.html

For this trial process we skipped the first steps and now are in

* The editor suggests two expert reviewers (volunteers welcome).

* The two expert reviewers read and evaluate the submission 
during a
  reasonable period of time (3 weeks?). Reviewers are 
encouraged to
  coordinate their review.

So, the question is whether Lincoln and Johan accept their nomination.
Lincoln? Johan?

In practice the review process is done like your proposal:

  Last week (8 days ago) Mathieu ONeil wrote:
  > I think the best would be to have a talk page like on 
WP for every submission where people can create and respond to 
different threads, indicating not just their name but also the 
time of comment - otherwise if people add comments to a text it 
could very soon become a big mess and hard to find one's way around...

I.e. reviewers create a "Review" page and put their comments 
there. At
the moment I have no good idea where such a page could live. I'd
propose to create a folder for each submission where all related
content is gathered. A "Review" page then could be simply added 
to the
folder. In any case in the "Categorization" tab you should add a
relation to the reviewed page.

As far as the signature is concerned of course to include a timestamp
would be very useful. However, I think with our current toolset people
need to do that explicitly. I have to look whether there is another
Plone tool allowing for signatures which are automatically expanded.


In any case this means we have to have categories for signals. 
Lets have a go, using Ed Steinmueller's masterful remix of my 
original proposal:

Categories are fine with me. If we can use the "Categorization"
feature this could also be a way to create very individual
perspectives on the contributions. I'll make a practical 
proposal on
this.


                                        	Grüße

                                        	Stefan

****
Dr Mathieu O'Neil
Adjunct Research Fellow
Australian Demographic and Social Research Institute
College of Arts and Social Science
The Australian National University
email: mathieu.oneil[at]anu.edu.au
web: http://adsri.anu.edu.au/people/visitors/mathieu.php





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