Sebastian Nordhoff - Community proofreading as a tool for community engagement

elpub:5562 - ElPub - ELectronic PUBlishing, June 11, 2019, Academic publishing and digital bibliodiversity - https://doi.org/10.4000/proceedings.elpub.2019.3
Community proofreading as a tool for community engagementArticle

Authors: Sebastian Nordhoff 1

  • 1 Language Science Press

This paper describes Community Proofreading as implemented by Language Science Press via PaperHive. Community members comment on a final draft version of a book and highlight possible improvements. A database of over 43.000 comments was compiled, which allows for the formulation of novel research questions. Two of those (“small details vs. big picture” and “reviewer fatigue”) are tested in this paper. Furthermore, the paper shows that Community Proofreading can serve as a tool to attract new authors.


Volume: Academic publishing and digital bibliodiversity
Section: Long Papers
Published on: June 11, 2019
Imported on: June 11, 2019
Keywords: Community Proofreading,Community Engagement,PaperHive,Evaluation,[SHS.INFO]Humanities and Social Sciences/Library and information sciences

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