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What peer review means for librarians and institutions around the world

What Does Peer Review Mean for Librarians?

By Emily Alexander on Sep 12, 2018
Peer Review week is an event that began with the goal of raising awareness amongst academicians on the process of peer review in scholarly publishing. Peer review plays a vital role in facing the many challenges encountered by publishers, and this global event provides an opportunity for librarians and academicians to educate themselves on the peer review process.

The peer review process is the evaluation of professional work by others working in the same field. This process prevents fraud and assures credibility, which ensures public trust and prevents pollution of the academic research pool. As part of their role as information and library science professionals, librarians share responsibility in preventing the pollution of the research pool.

Librarians are tasked with gathering publications for their institutions, and providing credible and quality publications is a necessary part of their role. Identifying credible publishers that utilize diverse reviewers is an important sign of publications that are prestigious and provide necessary research to a worldwide audience. Peer Review Week is an important event that allows researchers and librarians to discuss why peer review is important to research and identifies what publishers can do to promote it. Librarians interested in improving their collections can use the event as a way to identify what publishers and organizations around the world are doing for peer review, and how they are making their publications credible. As part of IGI Global’s mission to be a proven, trusted, and reliable source of research publications, the academic publisher uses the double-blind peer review process.

IGI Global carries over their commitment to international publications by ensuring diversity is utilized in the peer review stage, creating a prestigious source of accurate information for libraries to subscribe to and academics to utilize. With a global viewpoint for evaluating the research, reviewers are asked to analyze certain criteria in the evaluation of the manuscript, including originality, the significance of contribution, coverage of existing literature, and organizational structure. IGI Global’s double-blind peer review eliminates bias in the review process for all their publications.

IGI Global’s peer review process takes place on the eEditorial Discovery® System, where manuscripts are anonymized and assigned to at least 3 to 5 Editorial Review Board Members. Reviewers then examine a manuscript using criteria such as originality, significance of contribution, coverage of existing literature, and organizational structure. By using the eEditorial Discovery System, IGI Global publications are able to receive credible analysis in a transparent review system, ensuring the highest ethical standards for each and every manuscript. Utilizing this review process allows IGI Global to provide librarians with prestigious publications that are valuable to any institution’s collection.

The ethical protection of a solid and diverse peer review process is a mindset that has been adopted by both publishers and academicians across the industry. IGI Global and other reputable scholarly publishers provide transparency in their peer review process, while also participating in global events such as Peer Review Week to reinforce the importance of copyright laws associated with peer review.
IGI Global's expansive collection of publications is now available through InfoSci®-Databases, including 4,500+ books containing over 89,000 chapters of peer-reviewed research, now available as low as US$ 8,580* for new customers through the InfoSci-Books database. Additionally, IGI Global’s array of 175+ journals is now available for an annual subscription rate as low as US$ 5,100* through the InfoSci-Journals database. IGI Global’s database subject areas cover a wide range of disciplines, including business and management, education, library and information science, media and communications, and social sciences and humanities. Additionally, to ensure that these databases are available to institutions of all sizes, libraries can receive 100 percent credit for any currently owned titles toward the purchase of a database collection when their library’s holdings are analyzed by IGI Global. To have your holdings analyzed, click here.

Peer Review Week is an event that celebrates the essential role that peer review plays in maintaining scientific quality. The year’s event, happening September 10-15, focuses on diversity and inclusion in peer review, encouraging organizations around the world to get involved in the discussion. IGI Global, a member of the 2018 planning committee, is hosting various events as part of the celebration. To learn more about what academic publisher is doing to participate, follow IGI Global on Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn, or read more here.

Additionally, view the related readings below that can be found in InfoSci-Databases and recommend them to your library:

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