An Open Peer Review Module for Open Access Repositories

摘要

We present the first open peer review module for open access repositories. The module, designedin this first stage for integration with DSpace repositories, enables any scholar to offer aqualitative and quantitative evaluation of any research object hosted in a compliant repository.Weighted reputation metrics are calculated for individual articles, reviews, authors andreviewers. An advanced search function allows repository users to filter or sort research objectsbased on their reputation or the number of positive reviews. The integration of peer review inrepositories promotes open scholarship by enabling a direct and transparent collaborationbetween authors and reviewers, and produces novel metrics directly reflecting the perceivedquality of a research work by expert peers, contrary to current available metrics that onlyindirectly account for quality through usage statistics. The open peer review module has alreadybeen installed in two major Spanish repositories (DIGITAL.CSIC, e-IEO) with promising initialresults.