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Googling Peer Review, Part Two

Talking with a friend about peer review, it occurred to me that the stuff which has been most influential in my intellectual life, the stuff that’s been most profound and useful, is profound and useful in ways that have nothing at all to do with peer review. Was Foucault’s Discipline and Punish peer reviewed? It […]

November 15, 2010 – 4:10 pm | By admin | Posted in History | Tagged , , | Comments (11)

Peer Review and the Public Sphere

Peer review has not only served us badly: it’s cost academics more and more cultural authority. The general public, having more sources available online, is less willing to trust experts, and  sees peer review as akin to the monkeys in Kipling’s Jungle Book: “We all say so, and so it must be true.” Kathleen Fitzpatrick […]

October 26, 2010 – 3:06 pm | By admin | Posted in History | Tagged , , , , | Comments (9)

Which Project Should Mike Do?

Hello, fellow historians and the history-minded! I made a longish post about digital publishing and peer review, and now I have to put up or shut up. I want to want to conduct a research project equal in “mass” to a journal article, and post it online as I go. I’ll have to rethink the […]

October 20, 2010 – 5:46 pm | By admin | Posted in History | Tagged , , , | Comments (15)

Googling Peer Review

Who is not ambivalent about peer review?  On the one hand, it establishes a basic, reliable level of quality in argument and in evidence. On the other, it grinds everything down to a bland sameness. Peer review assures professional standards are met, and also enforces orthodoxy. Anonymous peer review prevents intimidation: anonymous peer review allows  […]

October 19, 2010 – 1:43 pm | By admin | Posted in History | Tagged , , | Comments (18)

Changing Academic Publishing

This blog will be partly a set of observations about history, partly a set of observations about music and music making. I’ll use this blog to re-consider the forms and modes of academic and semi-academic publishing and ideally  find some place in the small community of people interested in rethinking the profession. As a start, […]

September 30, 2010 – 3:24 pm | By admin | Posted in History | Tagged , , , | Comments (4)