?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Adc&rft.title=+Implementing+Peer+Review+on+the+Net%3A+Scientific+Quality+Control+in+Scholarly+Electronic+Journals.&rft.creator=Harnad%2C+Stevan&rft.subject=Economics&rft.subject=Peer+Review&rft.description=Electronic+networks+have+made+it+possible+for+scholarly+periodical+publishing+to+shift+from+a+trade+model%2C+in+which+the+author+sells+his+words+through+the+mediation+of+the+expensive+and+inefficient+technology+of+paper%2C+to+a+collaborative+model%2C+in+which+the+much+lower+real+costs+and+much+broader+reach+of+purely+electronic+publication+are+subsidized+in+advance%2C+by+universities%2C+libraries%2C+research+publication+grants%2C+and+the+scholarly+societies+in+each+specialty.+To+take+advantage+of+this%2C+paper+publishing's+traditional+quality+control+mechanism%2C+peer+review%2C+will+have+to+be+implemented+on+the+Net%2C+thereby+recreating+the+hierarchies+of+journals+that+allow+authors%2C+readers%2C+and+promotion+committees+to+calibrate+their+judgments+rationally+--+or+as+rationally+as+traditional+peer+review+ever+allowed+them+to+do+it.+The+Net+also+offers+the+possibility+of+implementing+peer+review+more+efficiently+and+equitably%2C+and+of+supplementing+it+with+what+is+the+Net's+real+revolutionary+dimension%3A+interactive+publication+in+the+form+of+open+peer+commentary+on+published+and+ongoing+work.+Most+of+this+%22scholarly+skywriting%22+likewise+needs+to+be+constrained+by+peer+review%2C+but+there+is+room+on+the+Net+for+unrefereed+discussion+too%2C+both+in+high-level+peer+discussion+forums+to+which+only+qualified+specialists+in+a+given+field+have+read%2Fwrite+access%2C+and+in+the+general+electronic+vanity+press.+&rft.publisher=Cambridge+MA%3A+MIT+Press&rft.contributor=Peek%2C+R.&rft.contributor=Newby%2C+G.&rft.date=1996&rft.type=Book+Chapter&rft.type=NonPeerReviewed&rft.format=text%2Fhtml&rft.identifier=http%3A%2F%2Fcogprints.org%2F1692%2F1%2Fharnad96.peer.review.html&rft.identifier=++Harnad%2C+Stevan++(1996)++Implementing+Peer+Review+on+the+Net%3A+Scientific+Quality+Control+in+Scholarly+Electronic+Journals.++%5BBook+Chapter%5D+++++&rft.relation=http%3A%2F%2Fcogprints.org%2F1692%2F