As I keep saying, peer review is a pretty new thing, and it doesn’t have to be the way it is now.
Thank you to the Royal Society, this will be an ✨amazing✨scholarly resource!!
“The initial process was much more informal than the one scientists know today, which became formalized in the 1970s … the Royal Society was asking reviewers to respond to standardized questions, (which) could prompt brief responses even to significant pieces of work.”