There are now a number of electronic pre-print archives. At the moment these are predominantly in the physical science field, but this is changing all the time as awareness of these services is increasing. It is possible to post a paper to these archives where they will be stored and where other researchers can ask for the paper to be sent to them. In all this discussion about how to succeed at the peer review process, the impression may have been given that the case for the peer review process is sewn up and that there is no alternative to this quality control method. This is not entirely true.
Many people are unhappy with peer review, as they equate it with censorship.
They state that there are many instances where an important piece of work has been suppressed because the established figures within the field have failed to approve the content. Peer review at MCB University Press MCB supports the use of the peer review process for all its journals targeted at the academic market and constantly strives to maintain rigorously high editorial standards in all its journals, whether they are highly academic or professional journals for practitioners. To this end, MCB continues to produce materials that will be of help to prospective authors and editors. MCB also supports the PeerNet project. PeerNet provides a pool of people who are qualified to referee papers, and all necessary information about them is stored so that the appropriate individuals are selected for each paper sent through the process.