{"id":2683,"date":"2011-01-24T10:12:00","date_gmt":"2011-01-24T10:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2011\/01\/peer-review-by-and-on-the-web\/"},"modified":"2011-01-24T10:12:00","modified_gmt":"2011-01-24T10:12:00","slug":"peer-review-by-and-on-the-web","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2011\/01\/peer-review-by-and-on-the-web.html","title":{"rendered":"Peer Review by and on the Web"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p>Two items related to peer review and electronic means of communication showed up on blogs today. First, via <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.insidehighered.com\/news\/2011\/01\/24\/qt\/peer_review_by_twitter\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Inside Higher Ed<\/a><\/em>, a piece in <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nature.com\/news\/2011\/110119\/full\/469286a.html?s=news_rss\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Nature<\/a><\/em> entitled \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nature.com\/news\/2011\/110119\/pdf\/469286a.pdf\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Trial by Twitter<\/a>\u201d on how electronic publication, blogging and Twitter\u00a0are leading to scholarly publications getting discussed much more quickly and intensely than was previously typical in some disciplines.<\/p>\n<div style=\"border-bottom: medium none;border-left: medium none;border-right: medium none;border-top: medium none\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.personal.psu.edu\/staff\/d\/r\/drs18\/BiSciCreation\/geocentricLg.jpg\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"200\" src=\"https:\/\/www.personal.psu.edu\/staff\/d\/r\/drs18\/BiSciCreation\/geocentricLg.jpg\" width=\"183\"><\/a>And at Pharyngula, <a href=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/pharyngula\/2011\/01\/i_thought_google_was_trying_no.php?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+scienceblogs%2Fpharyngula+%28Pharyngula%29&amp;utm_content=Google+Reader\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">P. Z. Myers points out that young-earth creationist materials are being included in Google Scholar results<\/a>. Obviously unless that changes, Google Scholar will no longer have any more\u00a0academic value than ordinary Google \u2013 and will be worse in its misleading searchers to believe that young-earth creationism has some scholarly merit. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gopetition.com\/petition\/42229.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">There\u2019s a petition to get this changed<\/a>, but who knows what will actually happen. But for those of us placing increasing focus on information literacy, this illustrates both the challenges and the necessity of training students with such skills.<\/div>\n<p>Finally, in searching for an image to go along with this post, I found <a href=\"http:\/\/www.personal.psu.edu\/staff\/d\/r\/drs18\/BiSciCreation\/index.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\">this site<\/a> which not only discusses major ways that people have related science and religion, but provides cartoons and images illustrating each one. Some are particularly amusing.<\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/7622297540113836091-9199394612707533396?l=exploringourmatrix.blogspot.com\" alt=\"\"><\/div>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two items related to peer review and electronic means of communication showed up on blogs today. First, via Inside Higher Ed, a piece in Nature entitled \u201cTrial by Twitter\u201d on how electronic publication, blogging and Twitter\u00a0are leading to scholarly publications getting discussed much more quickly and intensely than was previously typical in some disciplines. And [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":136,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2683","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Peer Review by and on the Web<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Two items related to peer review and electronic means of communication showed up on blogs today. 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