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Summary:

Open peer review can shorten the time between manuscript submission and publication, hold reviewers accountable for their work, make more apparent the hidden labor of reviewing and editing, allow for collaborative discourse between authors and reviewers, and more. Even with these benefits, open peer review is not widely accepted or understood. Few academic librarians have experienced it, and each implementation can be different; anything open is highly nuanced and contextual. Ultimately, when we discuss "open," we must discuss the stories around it. What is the aim? What are the pitfalls? What are the gains? And are we trying to simply replicate a broken system instead of reinventing it? Stories of Open: Opening Peer Review through Narrative Inquiry examines the methods and processes of peer review, as well as the stories of those who have been through it. Eleven chapters are divided into three parts: ࡲt 1: Orientation. This section offers a conceptual frame for the book, providing details about narrative inquiry as a methodology and the author's worldview and research approach. ࡲt 2: The Stories (The Story Middle). What is the standard experience of peer review in our field? This section shares stories told from a variety of viewpoints and roles--author, editor, and referee--and explores how these roles interact, the tension between them, and the duality and sometimes multiplicity of roles experienced by any one individual. ࡲt 3: Coda. These four chapters tie the stories to the idea of open and look in detail at the research method, as well as imagine how we might move forward--reflecting on our past stories to create future ones. When we open ourselves to others' experiences, we reflect on our own. Stories of Open offers questions for reflection at the end of many chapters in order to assist in the continued exploration of your own experiences with peer review, and encourages the use of these reflections in creating new and improved peer review methods.

Table of Contents:

• PART 1: ORIENTATION
• Chapter 1. A Meta-story: The Story of Stories of Open
• Chapter 2. Discovering Method: Narrative Inquiry
• PART 2: THE STORIES (THE STORY MIDDLE)
• Chapter 3. The Elusive Norm: Peer Review in LIS
• Chapter 4. Roles of Peer Review
• Chapter 5. Dualities and Multiplicities in Peer Review
• Chapter 6. Collaborative Work and Discourse Community
• Chapter 7. Transparency of Peer-Review Process
• PART 3: CODA
• Chapter 8. Storying Stories
• Chapter 9. I Just Feel Like This Makes Sense to Me: Stuart's Story / In collaboration with Stuart Lawson
• Chapter 10. The Next Layer of Publishing Transparency: Open Peer Review
• Chapter 11. Crafting Future Stories of Open.

Author/Creator:

Ford, Emily , author

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Item content: English

Main Work:

Stories of open: opening peer review through narrative inquiry [by Ford, E.]

Other Related Resources:

Print version: Stories of Open [by Ford, E.] (Chicago, IL : Association of College & Research Libraries,c2021 — ISBN 9780838937747)

Related Series:

ACRL publications in librarianship; no. 76

Subjects:

Peer review

Academic writing — Evaluation

Scholarly publishing

Academic writing

General Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.
Description based on: Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed July 28, 2021).

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

Digital Characteristics:

text file

Call Numbers:

Z286.S37

ISBNs:

0838938914 (electronic bk.)
9780838938911 (electronic bk.)

OCLC Numbers:

1261638924