Use-case
Peer-review
This use-case is concerned with peer-review of repository-based resources, initiated either by the repository, or by a peer-review service. This use-case encompasses a range of forms of peer-review, including open-peer-review.
The COAR Notify concept of review may be extended to a more general concept like endorsement or certification with no changes in underlying technology/framework. In the digital age, we do not need to rely on a journal for reviews of research outputs, and we are seeing a trend towards the formation of peer review communities. These communities can exist on their own and undertake peer review independently (PREerview), or contribute to peer review activities of existing journals (PCI example), or be attached to institutional and national research assessment activities. This scenario will involve working with CLACSO, which represents a large community of scholars in the humanities and social sciences, to develop and support communities of scholars that will undertake reviews of research articles and other types of content in repositories.
Relevant Patterns
| Name | Description | Categories |
|---|---|---|
| Announce Review | This pattern is used to announce the existence of a review, referencing (in context) the resource that has been reviewed |
Announcements |
| Request Review | This pattern is used to request a review of a resource owned by the origin system. |
Requests |
Example Scenarios
| ID | Scenario | Participating Systems |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Author requests review with possible endorsement (via overlay journal) | Overlay Journal <-> Repository |
| 2 | Author requests review with possible endorsement (via repository) | Repository <-> Overlay Journal |
| 9 | Author requests reviews from review service, via repository | Repository <-> Review Service |
| 6 | Author submits to overlay journal using repository to host resource and reviews | Overlay Journal <-> Repository |
| 3 | Overlay Journal Announces Review and Endorsement of Pre-print to Aggregator | Overlay Journal <-> Aggregator |
| 5 | Repository requests review (on behalf of corresponding author) | Repository <-> Review Service |
| 7 | Review Service Announces Review of Pre-print to Aggregator | Review Service <-> Aggregator |
| 8 | Review Service Announces Review of Pre-print to Repository | Review Service <-> Repository |