[RQC-interest] Review Quality Collector (RQC) initiative: Status

["Lutz Prechelt" <prechelt@inf.fu-berlin.de>]

Hi all,

last thing you heard (in January) was that the 
public funding proposal failed and that I was going
to talk to some publishers at the Academic Publishing
Europe conference about possible community funding
https://lists.fu-berlin.de/pipermail/rqc-interest/2014/msg00000.html

Well, I did.

- The reactions to RQC were all positive. Everybody felt
  that RQC is something that ought to exist.
  The willingness to fund the RQC creation project, however,
  was not so high.

- I was pointed to Fred Dylla and the STM association
  as an organization that might be willing to fund it
  instead or help find other solutions.

- I wrote a short proposal to him, but the required project volume
  was far larger than what they would usually do.

- In the meantime, Elsevier approached me and asked whether
  I would join their own reviewer incentives initiative.
  This grew out of the winning entry of their 2012
  Peer Review Challenge contest
  http://www.peerreviewfuture.com/?page_id=242
  It is currently oriented towards quantifying only the
  amount of reviewing, not the quality, but is interested
  in becoming quality-oriented as well, possibly picking up
  some of the RQC ideas.
  This is under discussion.

- Fred Dylla also suggested to perhaps apply for funding 
  from the EU for a consortium project.
  I will investigate this possibility in the coming weeks.
  If you (publisher or research institution) are or might be 
  interested in joining such a consortium, please send me a note!

That's it for today.
Questions and feedback are highly appreciated.

With kind regards,

  Lutz Prechelt

Prof. Dr. Lutz Prechelt; prechelt@inf.fu-berlin.de
Institut f. Informatik; Freie Universitaet Berlin
Takustr. 9, R.014; 14195 Berlin; Germany
+49 30 838 75115; http://www.inf.fu-berlin.de/w/SE/