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Now you can Peer Review for Nature.
« on: June 11, 2006, 01:44:45 PM »
It looks likes Nature has gone the way of the 21st century and will place preprints of submitted but not yet accepted papers on their servers for public comment to assist the normal peer review process. I think this is a good idea, but the only real issue is getting the public to notice that they started to do this in the first place. The problem with any good on-line idea is gaining the traffic to see your wonderful idea utilized. For example, I wrote a nice script that will nicely format some elementary information of the known isotopes from the most recent atomic mass evaluation 2003, but no one really knows or utilizes it. http://www.isotope-table.com/

You can get to their public review main page from here http://www.nature.com/nature/peerreview/index.html . You can check out the preprints already posted from this link http://blogs.nature.com/nature/peerreview/trial/. The site diplays articles in blog format. And since I didn't stumble across this myself but read it from Everyday Scientist you can see their post about it from here http://blog.everydayscientist.com/?p=164.

Finally, since Nature is posting preprints in blog format, we would be able to add these preprints to our forum feed and they would be made more visible in case anyone wanted to comment on them. If you want them added to our forum feed please post here to let me know.

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Re: Now you can Peer Review for Nature.
« Reply #1 on: June 12, 2006, 06:54:56 AM »
Cool. Unpublished journal articles are finally made available in the public domain.
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Re: Now you can Peer Review for Nature.
« Reply #2 on: June 13, 2006, 11:24:08 AM »
Update: I just noticed from this page, http://blogs.nature.com/nature/peerreview/trial/2006/06/limits_on_the_variation_of_the.html#comments, that you need to have an "institutional email address".
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Re: Now you can Peer Review for Nature.
« Reply #3 on: June 13, 2006, 01:30:01 PM »
I am sure they don't want rubbish comments to be published on their website. It's Nature, not some random online site.
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Re: Now you can Peer Review for Nature.
« Reply #4 on: June 13, 2006, 01:39:47 PM »
Of course, I didn't mean it was a bad idea.
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Re: Now you can Peer Review for Nature.
« Reply #5 on: June 13, 2006, 02:33:57 PM »
Quote from: Mitch on June 13, 2006, 11:24:08 AM
you need to have an "institutional email address".

I wonder how "institutional" is defined?
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Re: Now you can Peer Review for Nature.
« Reply #6 on: June 13, 2006, 02:42:52 PM »
I would presume a .edu address. But, maybe a chemicalforums.com address would work too. ;)
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Re: Now you can Peer Review for Nature.
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You think chembuddy.com or ph-meter.info sound too weak?  ;)
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