University of Oxford

David M. Shotton

I recently posted a brief description of  an article entitled [The Five
Stars of Journal
Articles](http://opencitations.wordpress.com/2011/10/17/the-five-stars-of-online-journal-articles-3/),
pointing to a [preprint of this
article](http://precedings.nature.com/documents/6542/) in *Nature
Preceedings*.  This is to announce that a revised and extended version
of that article has now been published in *[D-Lib
Magazine](http://dx.doi.org/10.1045/january2012-shotton)* \[1\].

While *D-Lib Magazine* does not undertake formal peer review of its
articles, and has a policy of not publishing articles that have
previously appeared elsewhere in the same form, this Five Stars article
has benefited from substantial comments made by colleagues on the
*Nature Preceedings* preprint (see the *D-Lib* article's
Acknowledgements for details).  Those comments constituted an effective
post-publication responsive peer review of the preprint, and stimulated
me to make a major revision and expansion of the text, resulting in
significant enhancements to both the content and the quality of the
resulting *D-Lib* article.  I am grateful both to my colleagues who
contributed to that post-publication community review of the preprint,
and to the staff of *D-Lib Magazine* for their understanding of its
value.

\[1\]   David Shotton (2012).  The Five Stars of Online Journal Articles
--- a Framework for Article Evaluation.  D-Lib Magazine
(January/February 2012), Volume 18, Number 1/2. 
[doi:10.1045/january2012-shotton](http://dx.doi.org/10.1045/january2012-shotton).


I recently posted a brief description of  an article entitled The Five Stars of Journal Articles, pointing to a preprint of this article in
<em>
 Nature Preceedings
</em>
.

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Five Stars article published in D-Lib Magazine