[Journal] Need Volunteers

Tue Feb 9 10:59:33 EST 2010

You may need to go into his user account and check on "reviewer" at the
bottom.  Or list all reviews and "enroll existing user" as a reviewer -
before he'll show up as an option.  I'll give it a try right now, but
thought you'd like to know how in case you need it.

Tyler

Sunburned Surveyor wrote:
> Dimitris,
> 
> I added you as a section editor to the Peer Review section of the
> journal. You should be able to log-in to OJS as a section edtior to
> review the article.
> 
> I tried adding you as a reviewer for that article, but your name
> doesn't show up when I try to assign you as a reviewer directly. I
> will have to ask Tyler about this.
> 
> Let me know if you can't get access to the article.
> 
> Landon
> 
> On Tue, Feb 9, 2010 at 7:35 AM, Sunburned Surveyor
> <sunburned.surveyor at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Dimitris,
>>
>> Thank you for volunteering to help us with the peer review article in
>> Volume 6. I'll see if I can figure out how to add you as a reviewer to
>> that section. In the meantime, I may just e-mail you a copy of the
>> article text.
>>
>> I'll let you coordinate the review with Rafal, who has been doing a
>> great job taking care of this section.
>>
>> When the review is complete, let me know. I'll get the comments from
>> the three reviews packaged up and sent to the author.
>>
>> Rafal or Daniel: Can we sent a short e-mail to the author of the
>> article letting him/her know our review is still in progress?
>>
>> Thanks for the help.
>>
>> Landon
>>
>> On Tue, Feb 9, 2010 at 2:21 AM, Dimitris Kotzinos <kotzino at csd.uoc.gr> wrote:
>>> Hi Rafal,
>>> good morning to you, too! :)
>>>
>>> I know more or less the process, so I think I will manage - for the blind
>>> reviews I was merely referring to the fact that we can be more flexible of
>>> course without compromising in any sense the reviewing process.
>>> As for the "open access" vs. traditional publishing I think that it is a
>>> matter of time. If a journal can guarantee the quality and will be indexed
>>> will eventually gain the necessary momentum. On the other hand, I think that
>>> it is understandable that this is a constant stream of revenue for the
>>> publishers and they are not very keen of loosing it.
>>> The "messiness" of the online open access journals is another issue. I think
>>> if online open access journals want to be taken seriously they should adopt
>>> some of the well established processes in publishing, including formatting
>>> but also having steady publication cycles, a not always changing scientific
>>> board and Editor-in-chief, call for papers to be published well in advance,
>>> etc.
>>> Of course, one issue of concern (especially in the academic world) id how
>>> many journals can this world handle/use/accept and where are we going with
>>> all the efforts, regardless of being open access or not ... But, this is
>>> another long painful discussion ...
>>>
>>> Best,
>>>
>>> Dimitris
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Rafal Wawer wrote:
>>>> Kalimera Dimitris,
>>>> Welcome on board! (-:
>>>>
>>>> For the secton editor working on OJS assuring double-blind review is not
>>>> that difficult. You just remove authors' names in the text sent to
>>>> reviewers. OJS cares for the rest, as every decision must go through the
>>>> section editor and there is no direct connection between author and
>>>> reviewer. You have to remember to check reviewers' comments thought, whether
>>>> they are accidentaly signed. (-;
>>>>
>>>> IMO assuring double-blind review is a must at least in the peer review
>>>> section. Recently I had an interesting conversation with one of professors
>>>> about OpenAccess journals. Good publications tend to go to indexed journals
>>>> although OpenAccess seem to promiss wider dissmination and citations...
>>>> "Open journals do not have calculated IF" and IMO not applying good
>>>> editorial practise won't help in taking them seriously. (-;
>>>> Everyone says that OpenAcces is future, everyone complains about the
>>>> commercial titles - "robbing authors from coyrights and money". As author
>>>> you pay for the paper to be published, you loose the rights to it and
>>>> everyone has to pay to read it. On the other hand from scientific point fo
>>>> view, OpenAcces is still not taken seriously enough, so the scientists
>>>> (especially those mature ones) complain but don't do much to change the
>>>> status quo. They also complain, that open journals are often quite messy -
>>>> "gorilla journals" (-; as basing upon volountary work is often a sunstantial
>>>> challange - I think we know it to be true (-;
>>>> For me is is a pitty, that through "traditional" scientific publication
>>>> system, the access to knowledge, especially in the environmental domain, is
>>>> closed or limited for the developing countries.
>>>>
>>>> Best regards:
>>>> Raf
>>>>
>>>> Dr. Rafal Wawer
>>>> K.U.Leuven
>>>> R&D Division SADL (Spatial Application Division)
>>>> Celestijnenlaan 200e bus 2224
>>>> BE-3001 Leuven-Heverlee
>>>> Belgium
>>>> tel. 0032 16 329731
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>> From: newsletter-bounces at lists.osgeo.org
>>>> [mailto:newsletter-bounces at lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of Dimitris Kotzinos
>>>> Sent: 09 February 2010 08:26
>>>> To: newsletter at lists.osgeo.org
>>>> Subject: [Journal] Need Volunteers
>>>>
>>>> Landon,
>>>>
>>>> I can do the Peer Review Section.
>>>> I will just need to know what is there and for you to add me as a section
>>>> editor.
>>>>
>>>> As for the blind review it usually goes both ways: the reviewer does not
>>>> know the authors' names and the authors never learn who the reviewers were.
>>>> But if we are talking for an article or two there is no need for the
>>>> section editors to make things amazingly complicated - we can trust them
>>>> that they will find the proper reviewers if they cannot or do not want to
>>>> review them by themselves. Moreover we are not a peer reviewed journal so we
>>>> do not need to be extremely strict, as long as we keep the good practices
>>>> and defend the name of the journal.
>>>>
>>>> Dimitris
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