creators_name: Scaria, Vinod creators_id: Vinod S editors_name: Kakkilaya, Srinivas editors_id: Kakkilaya BS type: journale datestamp: 2003-10-17 lastmod: 2011-03-11 08:55:22 metadata_visibility: show title: Peer review of scholarly communication in health: Perspectives in the Internet age ispublished: pub subjects: OJHAS full_text_status: public keywords: Peer-review, Internet, approaches, utilities abstract: Peer review is an established form of trust-marking and ensuring quality of scholarly communications. The advent of Internet has had its impact on peer review also. This paper examines the existing approaches of peer review utilizing the Internet. Future approaches, challenges and proposal of a framework for open peer review of directly published scholarly communication on the Internet is also discussed. date: 2003-04 date_type: published publication: Online Journal of Health and Allied Sciences volume: 2 number: 1 publisher: Kakkilaya BS refereed: TRUE referencetext: 1. Medical journal of Australia [MJA] Protocol for Internet Peer Review Study II available at http://www.mja.com.au/public/information/iprs2int.html 2. Clinical Medicine and Health research Netprints URL: http://www.clinmed.netprints.org Accessed on January 10 2003 3. The Open Citation Project: URL: http://opcit.eprints.org/opcitabout.shtml Accessed December 20 2002 4. Health Library Online URL: http://www.medlib.netfirms.com/healthlibonline Accessed December 2002 5. More about the Database: URL: http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?MoreAboutTheDatabase 6. URL: http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?WardCunningham 7. Category Wiki from URL: http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?CategoryWiki 8. Harnad, S. (1996) Implementing Peer Review on the Net: Scientific Quality Control in Scholarly Electronic Journals. In: Peek, R. & Newby, G. (Eds.) Scholarly Publication: The Electronic Frontier. Cambridge MA: MIT Press. Pp. 103-108. 9. Psycholoquoy URL: http://www.princeton.edu/~harnad/psyc.html 10. MedPICS: Platform for Medical internet Content Selection URL: http://www.dermis.net/medpics/ Accessed August 2003 11. MedCERTAIN: MedPICS Certification and Rating of Trustworthy Health Information On the Net URL: http://www.medcertain.com Accessed December 2003 12. Health on the Net [HON] Code of Conduct URL: http://www.hon.ch/HONcode/ Accessed December 2003 13. Oliver, C., "Re; Editorial assessment," Electronic Peer Review Internet Conference, 1995, http://www.mcb.co.uk 14. Google Technology: Page Rank Explained: http://www.google.com/technology/index.html Accessed December 2003 citation: Scaria, Dr Vinod (2003) Peer review of scholarly communication in health: Perspectives in the Internet age. [Journal (On-line/Unpaginated)] document_url: http://cogprints.org/3228/1/2003-1-2.pdf