9 Quality and Peer Review

As authors, you will be required to arrange peer review of your completed manuscript prior to publication.

Preferably, reviewers should be external to the author’s School and include at least one reviewer external to RMIT University. They may include other scholars and/or relevant industry experts.

Authors are responsible for identifying reviewers, co-ordinating the supply of the manuscript to reviewers, the receipt of reviewers’ reports, and the incorporation of feedback. The Open Education Team can assist by advising on procedure, tools, and suggested timing.

Issues for consideration by reviewers include:

• comprehensiveness
• content accuracy
• relevance and longevity
• clarity
• consistency
• modularity
• structure and flow
• navigation
• grammar and spelling
• diversity and inclusion.^[1]

The Open Education Team will provide you with a supporting documents and templates.

Consistent with an open ethos, peer reviewers should be acknowledged as contributors and added to your book’s front matter.