The Association of American University Presses (AAUP) has released Best Practices in Peer Review, an AAUP Handbook. The handbook articulates a set of practices that comprise a rigorous process of peer review for scholarly monographs. 'Best Practices for Peer Review' will serve as a core resource for the AAUP community, providing a guide for new editors in the field and new scholarly publishing programs, as well as a reference point for scholars, authors, and universities.
The handbook was drafted through a two-year consensus-building process by the 2014-15 and 2015-16 AAUP Acquisitions Editorial Committees, chaired by Mary Francis (2014-15, University of Michigan Press) and Mick Gusinde-Duffy (2015-16, University of Georgia Press).
As the Committee notes in the handbook's Preamble, "the peer review process is highly complex, involves many individuals, and must be responsive to the norms of the appropriate fields." Disciplinary expectations, administrative procedures, inter-disciplinary and creative works, and innovative publishing formats may all demand changes in approach, but the "Best Practices" Handbook provides a solid understanding of accepted standards against which such necessary changes can be weighed.
'Best Practices in Peer Review' is freely shareable as a PDF or online text and will be distributed as a print booklet to AAUP members, attendees at the AAUP 2016 Annual Meeting, and upon request to members of the scholarly and academic community.
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