Reviews

Moved from OpenWetWare:Ideas page:

• Jasonk 09:26, 6 October 2006 (EDT): Along the lines of adopt-a-protocol, it might be great to have adopt a topic area as well. Basically, trying to solve the problem of review articles always being out of date. It seems like the job of writing reviews would be much simpler if it was done on the fly as new papers came out. THat way when a new paper came accross your desk in the area you review you could read it, and then add the relevant details and the reference to the OWW Review page. This is in contrast to coming back to that same paper a year later when you're asked to write a review and having to re-read it, re-analyze it, etc. Seems like a win-win for the both the review-writer (less work) and the readers (who get a more up-to-date source.)
• Jasonk 09:43, 26 February 2007 (EST): I think it might be worth trying this out with the 'curator' approach we discussed for Consensus protocols.

Next steps

1. Wikify some existing OA reviews
2. Try and get the original author (or someone expert in the topic area) to be the curator for a few of the articles.
3. Leave some of the articles curator-free as a trial, still not clear if you want/need a curator.

Wikify existing Reviews

• Jasonk 11:23, 6 March 2007 (EST): Anyone have any suggestions?

Curators wanted

• Jasonk 11:37, 6 March 2007 (EST): Anyone interested in being a curator for a review in their field of expertise? I can't promise you scientific rewards yet, but I suspect this will become an accepted form of merit down the line ;)

Resources

• Is there an easy way to search only OA journals?
  • Looks like best bet would be to search known OA journals such as BMC or PLoS.
  • not sure if this is just OA, but just for UK I think: http://ukpmc.ac.uk/ --Johncumbers 19:46, 6 March 2007 (EST)