On the Importance of Refereein g Carl Smit h University of Marylan d Refereeing articles is a necessary task with absolutely no rewards . Currently, there is a national debate starting around the issue of intellectual property rights and the role academicians in the process of bringing journals to libraries . The argument being made is that academicians write the articles for the journals, referee the articles for the journals, an d serve as the editors guarding the quality of the journals, all without any compensation . All the journals do is to print the pages and then they turn around and sell the product to th e libraries used by the very same academicians . The fact remains that in a "publish or perish " world, somebody has to do the refereeing . Too many of us take the attitude that we are to o busy and that our work is so important that someone else should do the job . But who ? Our community has already suffered a big loss due to this negligent attitude . The National Science Foundation now decides the fate of grant applications by panel as opposed to the traditional set
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On the importance of refereeing
Smith, Carl
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, Volume 30 (3)
Association for Computing Machinery – Sep 1, 1999
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