On Mon, May 27, 2013 at 10:29 AM, Steven T. Corneliussen <
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> But it is also true that it's easy to find journals whose quality rests
> on, for example, the presence of Ph.D.-level scientists serving as editors.
> These editors--who obviously cannot work for free--manage the extensive,
> complicated process of peer review and the transformation of raw
> manuscripts into archived permanent products in something that also has
> costs: science's evolving system for ensuring precise retrievability not
> only of papers but of data sets from inside the annually accumulating
> tsunami of work.


I think peer review is the most important contribution you can get from
these publications. ANYONE can publish something but that does not make it
correct. Only when it withstands a review by knowledgeable people in the
field can you depend on the document.


-- 
Douglas Burnett
Satellite Beach
FL
As a member of the Association of Professional Genealogists (APG), the
National Genealogical Society (NGS), the Florida State Genealogical
Society(FSGS) and the Virginia Genealogical  Society(VGS), I support and
adhere to the APG's Code of Ethics.

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