Online peer-review publishing and post-peer review publishing

[D.H. Mattison]

It's not a problem with online peer-reviewed publications because they 
don't have the hardcopy timelag (typesetting/layout, printing, binding, 
mailing). You could also do post-peer review publishing with a wiki-type 
system where continuous, open feedback is the norm. Of course this doesn't 
quite mesh with aspects of the tenure system as I understand it (publish or 
perish), but given that there're movements afoot to restructure the entire 
scholarly publishing system, what's wrong with post-peer review publishing 
as a process or additional type of scholarly publishing? If you forget or 
modify the tenure system to accommodate such a process, the goal with 
post-peer review publishing would be to reach consensus on a stated problem 
or issue and reward, not just the author(s), but also the reviewers who can 
act as content contributors.

Well, ok, Rome wasn't built in a day ....

David Mattison
dmattison at shaw.ca