Independent Peer Review Manifesto

Short Description

This initiative shares a vision of an independent, democratic academic evaluation model free from the conflicts of interest imposed by the agendas of journals and their commercial publishers. It aims to promote complementary strategies to comprise the ingredients needed to attain this goal and to encourage scholars and interested parties to experiment with new modes that can assist the transition to free, independent, open and transparent peer review. In addition, it considers that any platform developed to implement free and open peer review should be independent of intermediaries. To mitigate potential conflicts of interest such platforms should ideally be under the management of an open community, be open source and operate in a non-profit manner.

The initiative is open to all scholars who share our vision and wish to promote our common goal by helping to:

  • widen the debate around free public access and independent peer review,
  • exert collective pressure on existing and forthcoming institutional online repositories to implement the complementary strategies,
  • call for recognition and consideration of published independent reviews in grant, promotion and tenure evaluation,
  • support mandates that require researchers to self-archive with free public access.

Moreover, it invites governments, universities, libraries, journal editors, publishers, foundations, learned societies, professional associations, and individual scholars to engage in a sincere dialogue about the need for independent peer-review in order to build a future in which academic ideas and results can be objectively assessed and become trusted by researchers and society alike.

Link

http://www.openscholar.org.uk/independent-peer-review-manifesto/

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