Re: Hoax Article Accepted by OA Bentham Journal

[Sandy Thatcher <sgt3@psu.edu>]

And Mr. Krichel is welcome to inspect the voluminous files that 
document the peer review process as it is carried out by Penn 
State University Press for every book published here. There is a 
ton of "empirical evidence" here for him to examine as to the 
utility of peer review of books. We do not keep on file the 
external reports solicited by the editors of our scholarly 
journals, which are kept in their own editorial offices, so an 
element of trust is involved here. We would, of course, take very 
seriously any evidence, such as a Davis-type expose, that the 
editorial standards of our journals were not being upheld in the 
manner we expect.

Sandy Thatcher
Penn State University Press