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