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Saturday, 30 April, 2016 - David Gibbens
I have just finished my first attempt at applying the ASO Guidelines for Community Review. The Target Article (perhaps not the best phrase, but the accepted one) was a contribution which I had invited Michael Protzel to submit.  As it turned out, the review process was far from straightforward.An immediate issue that arises in attempting to apply an orthodox model of peer review is the diversity of interpretations of key concepts such as ‘primary control’ within the intellectual world of the AT. By comparison – and accepting this is a simplistic picture – in a more developed discipline...
Sunday, 05 October, 2014 - David Gibbens (as Admin)
A question that faces us as we move towards publishing our first major authored articles on the website is whether or not we should assign them Digital Object Identifiers (DOI or doi, according to taste). Fuller information about DOIs can be found on the doi.org website or on wikipedia but, briefly, DOIs are intended to provide permanent identification ("persistent identifiers") of objects whose identity might otherwise shift, the classic example being an online resource where the address (URL or universal resource locator) changes, producing what is tastefully known as "...