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title: 'MediaCommons Receives Mellon Grant to Study Open Peer Review'
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date: '2011-04-12T08:15:10-04:00'
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permalink: /mediacommons-receives-mellon-grant-to-study-open-peer-review/
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- mediacommons
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- research
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\[crossposted from [MediaCommons](http://mediacommons.futureofthebook.org).\]
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As was reported in [the Chronicle of Higher Education’s Wired Campus](http://chronicle.com/blogs/wiredcampus/taking-a-closer-look-at-open-peer-review/30877?sid=wc&utm_source=wc&utm_medium=en) yesterday, MediaCommons and New York University Press have together been given [a $50,000 grant by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation](http://www.nyu.edu/about/news-publications/news/2011/04/11/nyu-press-media-commons-to-test-online-peer-review-in-project-funded-by-the-mellon-foundation.html) in support of a year-long study of peer-to-peer (P2P) review. We are thrilled to have this opportunity to take what we have learned from our experiments at [MediaCommons Press](http://mediacommons.futureofthebook.org/mcpress), as well as experiments conducted by other scholarly networks, and assess the state of open peer review in the humanities today.
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We are in the process of assembling an advisory panel composed both of scholars who are invested in experimental, open modes of scholarly communication and of scholars whose work is well-positioned in more traditional publishing forms. This advisory panel will join us for a series of meetings at which we will investigate and assess a range of experiments in reviewing practices, finally helping us to produce a white paper in which we will:
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1\) assess the value and shortcomings of P2P review for the evaluation of scholarship;
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2\) develop a roadmap for scholars and publishers, articulating criteria and protocols for conducting P2P review that are both rigorous and flexible enough to apply across disciplines;
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3\) identify the technical functionalities necessary to support these protocols; and
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4\) assess tools and platforms currently available for online peer review, and consider whether their functionalities will support our proposed protocols.
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The project will be managed by MediaCommons co-editors Kathleen Fitzpatrick and Avi Santo, NYU Press assistant director and editor-in-chief Eric Zinner, and NYU program officer for digital scholarly publishing Monica McCormick.
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We look forward to reporting here on our progress as our work proceeds.
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