Readersourcing—a manifesto

Authors:
Stefano Mizzaro
Affiliations:
Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, University of Udine, Udine, Italy
Venue:
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
Year:
2012

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Abstract

This position paper analyzes the current situation in scholarly publishing and peer review practices and presents three theses: (a) we are going to run out of peer reviewers; (b) it is possible to replace referees with readers, an approach that I have named “Readersourcing”; and (c) it is possible to avoid potential weaknesses in the Readersourcing model by adopting an appropriate quality control mechanism. The readersourcing.org system is then presented as an independent, third-party, nonprofit, and academic/scientific endeavor aimed at quality rating of scholarly literature and scholars, and some possible criticisms are discussed. © 2012 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.