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Re: Peer Review and the Net
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mary Brandt Jensen)
Fri Apr 17 08:59:28 1992
Date: Fri, 17 Apr 1992 07:55:51 CDT
Reply-To: Public-Access Computer Systems Forum <PACS-L%UHUPVM1.BITNET@RICEVM1.RICE.EDU>
From: Mary Brandt Jensen <MJENSEN%CHARLIE.USD.EDU@RICEVM1.RICE.EDU>
To: Multiple recipients of list PACS-L <PACS-L@UHUPVM1.MIT.EDU>
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Personally, I would be willing to put up with the delays of peer review
if I could get some real editing out of it. My work, like most other
work I have seen, could really benefit from a good *hard* edit, but I
never seem to get that from peer review. I'll continue to seek that
kind of input any way I can, and thankfully the net has provided the
contacts for the few good editors I have found.
I don't know what else to substitute for quality control, but I don't
think the current system of peer review gives us the quality control
it claims to give. I pay no attention to peer review when I decide what
to read. I pay attention only to subject matter and at times my
recognition of authors names. And the net contributes to my recognition
of many author names.
Mary Brandt Jensen University of South Dakota
Director of the Law Library School of Law
Associate Professor of Law 414 E. Clark St.
MJENSEN@CHARLIE.USD.EDU Vermillion, SD 57069-2390
(605) 677 6363 Fax (605) 677 5417
