[BOAI] Open peer review at Collabra: Q&A with UC Press Director Alison Mudditt

[Richard Poynder]

Earlier this year University of California Press (UC Press) launched a new
open access mega journal called Collabra. 

 

One of the distinctive features of Collabra is that its authors can choose
to have the peer review reports signed by the reviewers and published
alongside their papers, making them freely available for all to read - a
process usually referred to as open peer review.

 

Since Collabra is offering open peer review on a voluntary basis it remains
unclear how many papers will be published in this way, but the signs are
encouraging: the authors of the first paper published by Collabra opted for
open peer review, as have the majority of authors whose papers are currently
being processed by the publisher. Moreover, no one has yet refused to be
involved because open peer review is an option, and no one has expressed a
concern about it.

 

So how does open peer review work in practice and what issues does it raise?
A short Q&A with UC Press Director Alison Mudditt is available here:

 

http://poynder.blogspot.co.uk/2015/08/open-peer-review-at-collabra-q-with-uc
.html

 

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