[OAI-implementers] Designating as Peer Review

[Sarah L. Shreeves]

We've done something similar with our IR (http://ideals.uiuc.edu) - 
we have an optional description.peerReview field and the values are 
either "is peer reviewed" or "is not peer reviewed". Of course, this 
comes across in oai_dc just as dc:description "is peer reviewed".

Sarah

At 11:53 AM 6/7/2007, Farrell,Gabriel wrote:
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Jose Blanco [mailto:blancoj at umich.edu]
> > Sent: Thursday, June 07, 2007 11:34 AM
> > To: Farrell,Gabriel; oai-implementers at openarchives.org
> > Subject: RE: [OAI-implementers] Designating as Peer Review
> >
> > At our institution we went for the radical approach and
> > created a new DC type to handle this:
> >
> > dc.description.peerreviewed
>
>And a web search for "dc.description.peerreviewed" returns
>http://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/handle/2027.42/39191?mode=full.  The more
>I think about it, the more it seems the information should be stored
>with the item.  After all, once an item is published in a peer-reviewed
>journal, it will always be considered a peer-reviewed item.  Seems silly
>that the presentation of an item's peer-reviewed status could depend on
>a changing list of publishers.
>
>Also, if we could standardize the Dublin Core on this at some point,
>that would enable searches for peer-reviewed items across repositories.
>
>Gabe
>
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: oai-implementers-bounces at openarchives.org
> > [mailto:oai-implementers-bounces at openarchives.org] On Behalf
> > Of Farrell,Gabriel
> > Sent: Thursday, June 07, 2007 11:08 AM
> > To: oai-implementers at openarchives.org
> > Subject: [OAI-implementers] Designating as Peer Review
> >
> > In certain research-collaboration initiatives on campus,
> > faculty have requested the capability to search our DSpace
> > repository for only those items that have undergone peer
> > review.  We would therefore like to identify peer-reviewed
> > items in the Dublin Core fields in a way that would play well
> > with OAI.  Details of any consortial agreements or individual
> > attempts to address this issue would be appreciated.  I've
> > looked around on various lists and come up empty-handed.
> >
> > My first thought was to include "peer-reviewed" in a "type"
> > element or refinement thereof.
> >
> > Another option, possibly less radical than the first, is to
> > handle it without altering the Dublin Core fields by checking
> > the "publisher"
> > field of each search result against a white list of
> > publishers of peer-reviewed articles.
> >
> > Thanks for any advice.
> >
> > Gabe
> >
> >
> > --
> > Gabriel Farrell
> > Library Systems Developer
> > Hagerty Library
> > Drexel University
> > gsf at drexel.edu
> > +1 215 895 1871
> >
> >
>
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Sarah L. Shreeves
Coordinator, Illinois Digital Environment for Access to Learning and 
Scholarship (IDEALS)
University of Illinois Library at Urbana-Champaign
Phone: 217-244-3877 or 217-233-4648
Email: sshreeve at uiuc.edu
http://ideals.uiuc.edu/