JISC announces support for govt. recommendations for peer review process changes

JISC  (Joint Infor­ma­tion Sys­tems Com­mit­tee) in the U.K. is sup­port­ing an open peer review process.  It should be more trans­par­ent and review­ers should be trained.  JISC also rec­om­mends the shar­ing of data in the sci­en­tific com­mu­nity, and there is men­tion in this brief of the Dryad project to facil­i­tate this shar­ing of data in a repos­i­tory.
“The rec­om­men­da­tions came out of a House of Com­mons Sci­ence and Tech­nol­ogy
Com­mit­tee report that also urged that researchers make their sci­en­tific data
pub­licly avail­able, and that review­ers have for­mal training.”

Source: Knowl­edge­s­peak Newslet­ter, Aug. 2, 2011.