[GOAL] Re: Speech by Dutch junior minister in Berlin

[Graham Triggs]

On 29 January 2014 13:43, Stevan Harnad <amsciforum at gmail.com> wrote:

> (*5*) Dekker apparently misunderstands that all peer-reviewed journal
> articles are peer-reviewed, whether Gold or Green.
>
>
"Researchers will have to go through the peer review process whilst at the
same time publishing another version in a local repository."

"What's more, the quality of the publications is also unclear: especially
for users outside the scientific world, it will be hard to discern the
status of quality insurance of all these local repositories."

I guess you can take that any way you want, but I don't see any statement
about articles in repositories not being peer-reviewed.

What there is, is a question mark about what the version in the repository
actually represents - it could be the publisher's version, it could be the
author's copy following peer-review, it could be a version before any
peer-review changes were made.

Apart from the publisher's PDF, you've probably only got an author-provided
statement as to what the version is, if that. What editorial / review
processes has the repository gone through? There are certainly repositories
out there that do not review at all the author submission, and act later to
remove content that shouldn't have been posted if they are alerted to it.

Publisher's will check to see if an author has posted a version they were
not entitled to, but if the posting doesn't breach copyright, who is
checking that it has been clearly and correctly described?

So, what Dekker says is not "the Green article may not be peer-reviewed",
but asks "how do we know that it represents the peer-reviewed material".
When repositories do not make it clear to people downloading papers what
process of review the deposit went through, that's not an unreasonable
question to ask.

G
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