<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=us-ascii"><base href="x-msg://1577/"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><div>On 2012-11-12, at 5:39 PM, Sandy Thatcher <<a href="mailto:sandy.thatcher@alumni.princeton.edu">sandy.thatcher@alumni.princeton.edu</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><div>If respositories take on the functions of managing peer review and providing value-added</div></div></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><div>services like copyediting, then by definition they will become part of the publishing industry,</div></div></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><div>just as university presses are. </div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><i>Institutional repositories</i> will never do that: They are merely access-providers, to their own </div><div>peer-reviewed institutional output. Institutions cannot and will not become their own local </div><div>peer-reviewers!</div><div><br></div><div>Independent journals' editorial boards and referees are the peer-reviewers, whether they </div><div>are managed by learned-society publishers, university publishers or trade publishers.</div><div><br></div><div>That's what a (post-Green OA) journal is: just an established, reliable, independent</div><div>peer-review service-provider and certifier, answerable with its title and track-record</div><div>for its quality standards.</div><div><br></div><div>Stevan Harnad<br><div><br></div></div><br></body></html>