Presentation on Open Peer Review with Ada and lessons learned over publishing nine issues since 2012 using Comment Press through the Fembot Collective

1. Open Peer Review with Ada
ALA Annual 2016
Karen Estlund
Associate Dean for Technology and Digital Strategies
Penn State University Libraries
kestlund@psu.edu

2. Ada: A Journal of Gender, New
Media, and Technology
http://adanewmedia.org

3. About Ada

4. Published by:
With significant support from:
Publishing Ada
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5. The Fembot Collective & Ada
Cover illustrations by Mara Williams & Bryce Peake.

6. Process

7. Multi-level Peer Review
Accepted for
Publication
Suggestions for
Alternative Publication
Suggestions for
Resubmission
Not Accepted for
Publication

8. Expert Review
Cover illustration by Azle Malinao-Alvarez.

9. Collective Peer Review

10. Open Peer Review

11. Conversation Blips: comment notification

12. Peer Review for Interactive Works
Zylinska, J. (2014) iEarth. Ada: A Journal of Gender, New
Media, and Technology, No.5. doi:10.7264/N36W98CFRuberg, B., (2015) Curating with a Click: The Art That
Participatory Media Leaves Behind. Ada: A Journal of
Gender, New Media, and Technology, No.7. doi:10.7264
/N3PR7T8X

13. Peer Review of (Long Process) Multimedia

14. Bennett, A., (2015) Inverto. Ada: A Journal of Gender, New Media, and Technology, No.7. doi:10.7264/N36T0JXT

15. Feminist Hacks
Henderson, A. (2015) Cover Illustration. Ada: A Journal of
Gender, New Media, and Technology, No.6. doi:10.7264
/N3GB22BT
Cooper, B., & Rhee, M. (2015) Introduction:
Hacking the Black/White Binary. Ada: A
Journal of Gender, New Media, and
Technology, No.6. doi:10.7264/N38S4N6F

16. Training for Open Peer Review

17. Review Labor

18. Reviewer Status
Cover illustration by Jeanne Gomoll.

19. Review Process Feedback
“I like that it’s mentorship focused. I get to
ask myself ‘how can I help make this piece
publishable,’ rather than acting as some
kind of gatekeeper for a competition-driven
scarcity that is traditional journals.”

20. Comments on Articles
● 2,699 comments
● 98 articles
● 9 issues
● 463 contributors
Cover illustration by David McCallum.

21. Distribution & Access

22. Copyright Licenses*
* as of fall 2015

23. Final Publications

24. Ada Review - Issue Release

25. Ada Review - Article Release

26. Ada Review - Articles Not Released
Not Accepted
for Publication
Archived
(Community Access
also Removed)

27. Questions of Indexing: Review vs. Final

28. From Final to Review and Back Issue published
Open peer review
Ada to Ada Review: 90 sessions, June 25, 2015 to June 24, 2016
Ada Review to Ada: 73 sessions, June 25, 2015 to June 24, 2016

29. Most Popular Peer Reviewed Article
7,794 PageViews, Ada, issue 2, (published June 1, 2013)
130 PageViews, Ada Review, issue 2, (openly published June 1, 2013)
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30. Troubling the System - Answering
Cover illustration by David McCallum.