If your institution has implemented a review process or if you have given thought to this subject, I will appreciate
your input.
For students, educators, educational institutions and the public at large, if "the Web" is to move from entertainment and casual information transfer to a useful and reliable source of accurate information ; a method of peer review must be instituted, at the Institutional level as a minimum. Businesses have found ways to assure that the information being released about them is accurate and have even gone so far as to make ordering of goods and services possible via "the Web". Surely; therefore, educational institutions can do similarly.
The statement at the bottom of the home page is premature. The University of Nebraska-Lincoln has yet to implement the necessary review procedures; however, the discussion "goes on" and we are confident that a way will be found to assure that "Intellectual Materials" are reviewed prior to "Publication". Such a review process will encourage educators to release their most recent and creative endeavors to an audience that can both appreciate and utilize it for what it is, reviewed scholarly materials.
These reviewed scholarly materials must be accorded the same regard as any print publication for purposes of academic evaluation and by copyright as is appropriate of all original material. For purposes of academic evaluation the decision of what any given Web published material is equivalent to in "print medium currency" (i.e. a paper, a chapter, a book, etc) is for individual institutions to decide. The point of this discussion it that it should be reviewed prior to release and accorded the respect and protection of any other reviewed intellectual property.
If your institution has implemented a review process or if you have given thought to this subject, I will appreciate
your input.
This page is authored and maintained by: Dr. J.E. Partridge, Department of Plant Pathology, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
