Workshop on Peer Review

WORKSHOP ON PEER REVIEW

Trieste, Italy
23-24 May 2003

Advisory Board: Marco Fabbrichesi (INFN, Italy), Stevan Harnad (University of Southampton, UK), Stefano Mizzaro (University of Udine, Italy) and Corrado Pettenati (CERN Library, Switzerland).

Partially supported by the European Commission (grant ILAS-IST-1999-90178).

Peer Review in the Age of Open Archives

Natura of peer review:
- Impact of peer review
- History (and the future) of peer review
- The Web improves peer review/Peer review improves the Web?
Means of optimizing peer review online:
- Referee selection
- Relation of peer review to peer commentary, preprints, and self-selected feedback
- Impact factors and peer review

Talks

Friday, 23 May 2003
- 9:30-9:45 Welcome
- 9:45-10:45 Stevan Harnad (Université du Quebec, Montreal): PostGutenberg Peer Review: Invariant Essentials and Newfound Efficiencies ---> slides
  Coffea break
- 11:00-12:00 Travis C. Brooks (SPIRES, Stanford): Breaking and Remaking Peer Review with the SPIRES Databases, Our Experience
- 12-00-13-00 Gerry McKiernan (Iowa State University Library, Ames): Alternative Peer Review: Quality Management for 21st Century Scholarship ---> slides
  Lunch
- 14:30-15:30 Rudiger Voss (CERN, Geneva): Peer Review in the Era of Large-Scale Projects: the Case of Experimental Particle Physics ---> slides
- 15:30-16:30 Daniela Luzi, Adriana Valente (IRPPS, CNR, Rome): The Role of Open Archives in Overcoming the Limits of Centralisation and Citation Practices ---> slides
  Coffea break
- 16:45-17:45 Daniele Amati (SISSA, Trieste): Peer Review: the Experience of JHEP
Saturday, 24 May 2003
- 9:30-10:30 Gerry McKiernan (Iowa State University Library, Ames): Web-based Journal Manuscript Management and Peer-Review Software and Systems ---> slides
  Coffea break
- 10:45-11:45 Stefano Mizzaro (University of Udine, Udine): Peer Review Is Dead, Long Live Peer Review! ---> slides
- 11:45-12:45 Jean-Claude Guédon (Université de Montréal) Open Access and Peer Review : Rethinking the Evaluation of Scientifc Works
  Lunch
- 14:30-15:30 Nico Pitrelli, Mauro Scanu (ILAS, Trieste), Open Archives and Other Technologies: a Pilot Study on Scientists Perception ---> slides
  15:30-16:00 Paola Gargiulo (CASPUR, Rome): SPARC Europe, Its Initiatives, Activities and Contributions to the Alternative Publishing World
  Coffea break
- 16:15-17:45 Webcasted Round Table and Summary

Travel Information

The workshop will be held at SISSA (Conference Room D). SISSA is part of the Miramare campus. See the map of the Miramare campus. Also useful: airport information.

For hotel accomodations, please contact Claudia Parma.