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> I have pledged to no longer do any volunteer work, including reviewing, for non-open access publications, which unfortunately includes pretty much every publi
by georgeorwell 14y ago
> I have pledged to no longer do any volunteer work, including reviewing, for non-open access publications, which unfortunately includes pretty much every publication from [commercial-publisher].
The volunteer aspect of peer review is the worst part. How much is an expert's time worth? How much is a two-sentence review worth to an author? If it were paid on an hourly basis using an honor system, it would be fantastic for quality and consistency.
That closed journals ask for volunteer review makes it doubly bad. But I still believe paid review for open access journals would be a good thing. I know, it is an unrealistic fantasy.
- wmf 14y agoSpeaking as an author, paper reviews are very helpful (although the useful ones are generally much more than two sentences). Speaking as a reviewer, I don't mind doing reviews for free (I consider it part of the job) and if volunteer reviews are needed to make open access work I think it's a worthy tradeoff.