{"id":5857,"date":"2022-11-16T16:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-11-16T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/operas.hypotheses.org\/?p=5857"},"modified":"2022-11-16T15:56:00","modified_gmt":"2022-11-16T13:56:00","slug":"prism-peer-review-service-for-open-access-books-officially-launched","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/operas.hypotheses.org\/5857","title":{"rendered":"PRISM Peer Review Service for Open Access Books Officially Launched"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n
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The Directory of Open Access Books (<\/em>DOAB<\/em><\/a>), a community-driven discovery service for open access books, is launching its Peer-Review-Information-Service-for-Monographs (PRISM). PRISM is a service provided by DOAB as part of the <\/em>OPERAS service portfolio<\/em><\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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PRISM<\/strong> is a standardised way for academic publishers to display information about their peer review processes across their entire catalogue. On the DOAB site<\/a>, you can see a PRISM logo next to a publisher and next to the individual book. PRISM peer review information is also included at the metadata level, making it available through the DOAB API which is freely distributed and incorporated into library search tools worldwide. Learn more about PRISM, including how to participate as a publisher here<\/a>. Pierre Mounier, OPERAS Coordinator (Community) and co-director of DOAB, points out:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We are glad to launch officially the PRISM service to bring more transparency to the quality assurance process for books. PRISM was initially developed thanks to European funding through the projects HIRMEOS and OPERAS-P. It is the result of several years of collaboration between DOAB, OAPEN and OPERAS to better understand and serve the needs of researchers and the scholarly communication community in the humanities and social sciences. We aim at providing support to open access books with PRISM and we hope that the service will be widely adopted by OA book publishers, <\/p>

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How can PRISM help me?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

PRISM’s goal is to provide transparency about the peer review process(es) that apply to their works. This helps build trust in open access academic book publishing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n