1. The virtues and value of peer review
Las virtudes y valor de revisión crítica

2. Christie Henry Editorial Director The University of Chicago Press chenry@uchicago.edu @christiehenry

3. Association of American University Presses www.aaupnet.org
“Mission is to ensure academic excellence and cultivate knowledge. High standards of editorial quality and peer review are one of the primary ways that AAUP members advance that mission. Demonstration of these standards in their publication programs is central to the membership eligibility of nonprofit scholarly publishers, and is the very substance of AAUP members' authority to validate and disseminate long-form scholarship.”

4. AAUP Best Practices of Peer Review, 2016
Peer review is the process through which university press editors commission formal evaluations from respected experts (“peers”) on the contribution to scholarship, teaching, and public debate of a work being considered for publication. These formal evaluations are considered by press staff and shared and discussed with authors as a crucial prepublication step in an editor’s evaluation of the merits of proposed projects. This process provides feedback that is both stringent and fair, enables an author to strengthen a work in progress, and adds value and meaning to the work that is ultimately published.

5. Why, When, How to Conduct Peer Review Las Opciones del editor sobre qué, como y cuando llevar a cabo una evaluación homóloga

6. Why Peer Review
Provides Editor, Author, and Press with detailed assessment of projects at multiple stages
Provides Marketing with a chance to test the audience & secure prepublication support
Distinguishes University Presses from other scholarly publishers
Helps build a network of press friends, potential authors
Helps support an editor when declining projects
Editors remit is wide; cannot possess expertise in all areas of Acq

7. When to Peer Review
Proposal stage: shape work at early stage; identify competing titles and potential problems before investments are made; allows Editor a greater role in developing project; gains competitive advantage.
Manuscript stage: refine work before manuscript editing commences (can save costs of editing); identifies problems when changes can still be made; builds advertising and marketing opportunity
Many presses will peer review at both stages, depending on Press and Board requirements
Some presses have exceptions for certain types of books—trade, poetry, fiction

8. How to conduct peer review
Create tracking system
Create a series of template letters, adapt to book and audience types (specialist, general, scientific, etc)
Establish budget for each Editor for review

9. Tools for Managing Peer Review

10. Reader Record

14. Selecting Peer Reviewers Selección de homólogos
Expertise
Readership
Reliability
Altruism
Conflicts of Interest: collaborator, professor, etc
Author input
Series

15. Working with Peer Reviewers Trabajando con homólogos
Communication: audience, schedule, expectations (for whom? Author, Press, Board? Not tenure committees)
Disciplinary culture
Confidentiality: Blind or Doubleblind
Reader Questionnaires: content, author, audience, competition, execution
Facility of process: files, questionnaires, payment
Will need multiple questionnaires

16. Sharing Peer Review with Authors Compartiendo información de la contraparte a los autores
Editor as translator
Contradictory reports
Revision plan
Editor as negotiator
Timescales
Editor as coach
Editor needs to be able to parse out review and guide author through it

17. Peer Reviews as Documents of Record Evaluaciones homólogas como documentos registrados
Who owns the review?
Multiple purposes: Marketing and sales, Board, other presses? Tenure committees?
Archiving reviews: Use, protocols

18. Costs of Peer Review Editor/staff time
Systems creation/license/management
Remuneration
Competition (with non academic presses)
Publication schedule
Editor autonomy?

19. Benefits of peer review
Editor, Press, Author education
Credentialing of Press brand
Improves quality of manuscripts
Board relationships
Networks of prospective authors
Advertising/Promotion

20. Further Resources Peer Review: Why It Matters https://youtu

22. Muchas Gracias