Here are some relevant URLs for my OAI/Geneva talk on Peer Review at the Workshop on The Open Archives initiative (OAI) and Peer Review journals in Europe: http://documents.cern.ch/OAi/
Some earlier Powerpoints: http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Tp/Peer-Review/index.htm Relevant Sites: Behavioral and Brain Sciences (Refereed On-Paper Journal (1978) http://www.bbsonline.org/ Psycoloquy (Refereed On-Line-Only Journal) (1989) http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/psycoloquy Prior Papers on Peer Review: Harnad, S. (1982) (ed.) Peer commentary on peer review: A case study in scientific quality control, New York: Cambridge University Press. Harnad, S. (1985) Rational disagreement in peer review. Science, Technology and Human Values 10: 55 - 62. http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Papers/Harnad/harnad85.peerev.htm Harnad, S. (1986) Policing the Paper Chase. (Review of S. Lock, A difficult balance: Peer review in biomedical publication.) Nature 322: 24 - 5. Harnad, S. (1990) Scholarly Skywriting and the Prepublication Continuum of Scientific Inquiry. Psychological Science 1: 342 - 343 (reprinted in Current Contents 45: 9-13, November 11 1991). http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Papers/Harnad/harnad90.skywriting.html Harnad, S. (1996) Implementing Peer Review on the Net: Scientific Quality Control in Scholarly Electronic Journals. In: Peek, R. & Newby, G. (Eds.) Scholarly Publishing: The Electronic Frontier. Cambridge MA: MIT Press. Pp. 103-118. http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Papers/Harnad/harnad96.peer.review.html Harnad, S. (1997) Learned Inquiry and the Net: The Role of Peer Review, Peer Commentary and Copyright. Learned Publishing 11(4) 283-292. Short version appeared in 1997 in Antiquity 71: 1042-1048. Excerpts also appeared in the University of Toronto Bulletin: 51(6) P. 12. http://citd.scar.utoronto.ca/EPub/talks/Harnad_Snider.html Harnad, S. (1998/2000) The invisible hand of peer review. Nature [online] (5 Nov. 1998) http://helix.nature.com/webmatters/invisible/invisible.html Longer version in Exploit Interactive 5 (2000): http://www.exploit-lib.org/issue5/peer-review/ http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/nature2.html Harnad, S. (1999) Free at Last: The Future of Peer-Reviewed Journals. D-Lib Magazine 5(12) December 1999 http://www.dlib.org/dlib/december99/12harnad.html Harnad, S. & Carr, L. (2000) Integrating, Navigating and Analyzing Eprint Archives Through Open Citation Linking (the OpCit Project). Current Science 79(5): 629-638. http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Papers/Harnad/harnad00.citation.htm Harnad, S., Carr, L. & Brody, T. (in prep). How and Why To Free All Refereed Research From Access- and Impact-Barriers Online, Now. http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Tp/science.htm Harnad, S. (in prep) For Whom the Gate Tolls? How and Why to Free the Refereed Research Literature Online Through Author/Institution Self-Archiving, Now http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Tp/resolution.htm Peer review and the Ebiomed Proposal: http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Ebiomed/ebiomed-harnad.htm Peer review and the CalTech Proposal: http://library.caltech.edu/publications/ScholarsForum/042399sharnad.htm Comments on other Peer review reform proposals: http://www.bio.net//hypermail/JRNLNOTE/jrnlnote.199912/0010.html