2014 hypothes.is peer review meeting
TRANSCRIPT
24th May, 2014
Opportunities to enhance
peer review processes
Mark Patterson
• Improved tools for pre-publication peer review process
• Support for portable peer review• Aggregation of post-publication review
Could do better…
Peer review at eLife
Full submission
Editor plus external
reviewer(s)
Decision after peer
review
Revision assessed by editor
Consultation amongst reviewers
Single set of instructions
Limit rounds of revision
The inspiration for…
eLife Lens http://lens.elifesciences.org/
How Lens works
In NLM XML most links are one-way
In Lens JSON we make two-way linksexplicit
XML JSON HTML
All of this happens in the browser via javascript
EJP TNQ
Journal management system Typesetters
80% XML80% XML
+ Lens
Deploying Lens in peer review
XML JSON HTML
What we’d also like to do
Authors edit in Lens
Reviewers annotate in Lens
• Transfer rejected articles and the review reports to another journal for a quick decision
• Aggregate post-publication review comments
What else could we do?
Ivan Grubisic Michael Aufreiter Graham Nott
Concept, prototypetesting, development
Front end, javascript, interface, development
XML workflows and back end, image processing
Ian Mulvany
Oversight, wizardry, enthusiasm
Acknowledgments