Nandalal Gunaratne wrote: > --- Tim Churches <tchur at optushome.com.au> wrote: >> Ed Dodds wrote: >>> I wonder if the avaible technology says it is time >> to shift the paradigm >>> and to post articles to wikis FOR PEER REVIEW... >> An new open access journal, PLoS ONE (see >> http://www.plosone.org ) >> offers a rapid, traditional (albeit fully online, no >> paper) peer-review >> process together with the ability for readers to >> annotate and comment on >> papers after they are published. > > The British Medical Journal, which was the first paper > medical journal made freely available online, has > allowed this for several years with success.
The BMJ permits "Rapid Responses" which are like the traditional "Letters to the Editor" but are published more quickly, and online only, and are linked to the article or paper to which they refer. PloSone also provides for such comments on papers but goes one step further (quoting from http://www.plosone.org/static/commentGuidelines.action#annotation ): <begin quote> "How to Create and View Annotations To make an Annotation, first make sure you are logged into PLoS ONE. Then, highlight the text to be annotated, and then click the "Add your annotation" link in the right-hand navigation menu. Enter the title and text for the annotation, and when you are satisfied, click "Post" to attach the Annotation to the manuscript. Any correctly formed URLs in Annotations automatically will become working links. Notes: * Annotations can be started at any point within the text, but for ease of reading we ask that you do not begin Annotations in the middle of words. * We advise that longer Annotations are first written in a word-processing program that allows for spell checking before they are copied and pasted into PLoS ONE. Annotations are represented by the small blue "bugs" within the online text. The number in the bug indicates the number of Annotations that begin at that point in the text. To see what selection of text is associated with an Annotation, run the cursor over the bug, and the text will be transiently highlighted. Click on the bug to view the title, date, contributor, and first 250 text characters of an Annotation. For Annotations longer than 250 characters, click the "View/respond to this" link to view the full text. " </end quote> > Putting up ones paper for comment before publication > may worry many authors as it can be "stolen". When the > number of publications are given so much importance in > ones CV, this problem remains real. Really? Do you have any data to support this assertion? Are there many (or any) documented cases of this actually occurring in the biomedical domain due to online self-publication of manuscripts for comment? Or are these just unfounded fears? Tim C _______________________________________________ openEHR-clinical mailing list openEHR-clinical at openehr.org http://www.chime.ucl.ac.uk/mailman/listinfo/openehr-clinical
