Academic Peer-Review…Crowd Sourced

This seems seriously problematic.... but an interesting direction for open philosophy. What do you think?

Sympoze: a network of high-quality academic publications from various disciplines that utilizes crowd sourcing for the peer-review process. Crowd sourcing the peer-review process improves a number of problems with the current academic publishing model.

http://www.sympoze.com/

• Reduced referee burden
• Reduced review time
• Speed up finding qualified referees
• Eliminate the bad luck of being assigned to a biased or overworked referee
• More diverse feedback
• Decisions better reflect opinion of the field

Sympoze will also offer…

• High-quality peer-reviewed scholarship by experts in the field
• Immediate open-access publication (for pieces that pass the review process)
• Yearly print volumes for each discipline in traditional book and e-book formats

Learn More

• Click here to read more about how Sympoze benefits academia.
• Click here to check out what we have in the works.