Opening Peer Review in LIS: Identities, Dualities, and Multiplicities

What does it mean to peer review in library and information science? What does it mean to be reviewed? How do our professional identities intersect with this vital research and publishing role? And what does it mean when peer review is opened to reveal these identities? In celebration of Peer Review Week 2021, this free webcast with Emily Ford will share insights into peer review in LIS as discussed in Stories of Open: Opening Peer Review through Narrative Inquiry, a newly published book from ACRL

My (Our) Abusive Relationship with Google and What We Can do About It

A blog featuring the proposed Google Book Search Settlement Agreement is discussed

On the ALA Membership Pyramid

The article discusses the problems with the American Libraries Association (ALA) membership mode

Struggling to Juggle: Part-time Temporary Work in Libraries

The article presents the author\u27s view on the benefits and disadvantages of a part-time temporary work in libraries. She states that the advantages include flexibility, gaining experience, and staying in a local area which is advantageous for those who have children. Also, working in more than one library helps one to develop professional relationships with coworkers. Meanwhile, its disadvantages include commuting, exclusion from the work environment, and not being paid on health benefits

On the ALA Membership Pyramid

The article discusses the problems with the American Libraries Association (ALA) membership mode

Open Ethos Publishing at Code4Lib Journal and In the Library with the Lead Pipe

The library world is deeply entrenched in the open ethos, yet there are few examples of library publications that engage in open editorial and peer review processes. In this article we discuss the challenges and opportunities posed by the open editorial processes used at In the Library with the Lead Pipe and Code4Lib Journal. To end, we discuss the need to grow open review and editorial processes in library and information science publications

The Need to Return the Values of Human Inquiry to Scholarly Communication with Emily Ford

Corresponding published article https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/ulib_fac/346/. In this episode of PDXPLORES, Emily Ford, a professor in the Millar Library at Portland State University, discusses the lived experiences of peer review, a small but landmark part of scholarly communications. Ford argues that proprietary publishing has influenced many of the processes in the scholarly publishing ecosystem, resulting in a need to reapply the values of human inquiry to scholarly communications. Drawing from her research, Ford suggests how the academic community might address this need. Click on the Download button to access the audio transcript

Possibilities of Open Peer Review

Students, undergraduate and graduate alike, must engage with the peer-reviewed literature. Yet, peer-review processes are often opaque and unique to the communities in which they occur. Concurrently open peer review is becoming more common in scholarly publishing. What possibilities does open peer review afford students in the library instruction classroom? Whether an undergraduate student needs to cite peer-reviewed articles for a class assignment, or a graduate student seeks to engage more deeply in their discipline, these students can feel daunted by peer review. What does this process mean? What does it do and how does one engage in it? Although today\u27s scholarly publications are increasingly adopting transparent peer review methods, the norm remains steeped in opacity, whether they are single or double-blind processes. On the other hand, transparent peer review processes--those that allow for direct dialogue between authors, referees and editors, and which publish these conversations for the public to witness--offer fertile ground for librarians and students to observe, examine, and evaluate peer-review. As instruction librarians we can harness transparent peer-review processes at journals such as eLife, F1000Research, and those published by Frontiers, to bolster our efforts to support student engagement with peer review. What if we developed lessons where transparent peer review was central? What if librarians partnered with course instructors and academic programs to develop student training in peer review? What possibilities does transparent peer review open into the library instruction classroom? In this lightning talk, and based on my own experiences and research, I will explore these what ifs and more

How Do You Say No?

The article discusses ways on how to say a no. It states that a person\u27s ability to say no to taking a new project at work or another appointment affects the mental wellness and healthy work or life balance. William Ury, author of the book The Power of a Positive No argues that positive no affirms an individual\u27s values and sends clear communication with others. It also provides various experiences of the other workers of how they approach in saying no

Review: Richard S. Katz, Peter Mair: Democracy and the Cartelization of Political Parties

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