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Over the past 18 months, AfricArXiv, Eider Africa, eLife, PREreview, and the Training Centre in Communication Africa (TCC Africa) have collaborated to develop a peer-review training workshop called Open Peer Reviewers in Africa,

PREreview platform news, 10 February 2023

Welcome back to our new series of weeknotes covering platform news from PREreview.org in 2023!

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PREreview platform news, 3 February 2023

Welcome to our brand new series of weeknotes meant to help you keep up with all the exciting changes to PREreview.org in 2023!

Newsletter: January 2023

Hello and welcome to our first PREreview newsletter of 2023, and wow, do we have some big things coming up this year! Meet the new members of the PREreview Team!At the end

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Exciting platform news for PREreview in 2023

Find out what’s next for PREreview.org in 2023! Learn about upcoming updates and how to join us for our February community calls to share your feedback on the changes.

Welcome Vanessa!

This week the PREreview Team is very excited to welcome Vanessa Fairhurst as the new Community Manager! In this new role, Vanessa will lead the development and implementation of community engagement strategies to

Welcome Chad!

The PREreview Team is very excited to welcome Chad Sansing as the new Product Manager! In this new role, Chad will be managing the new PREreview preprint platform development and design, working across

Register for OpenRPrints

A community call to present a new way preprint authors can solicit constructive community reviews In the past 9 months, we at PREreview have been working with open source developers at the Open

¡Bienvenido Arturo!

The PREreview Team is very excited to welcome Arturo Garduño-Magaña as the Open Grant Reviewers Program Manager and Trainer. In this new role, Arturo will work in close collaboration with Open Research Funders

Beyond manuscript peer review - Announcing Open Grant Reviewers in the making

We are thrilled to announce that PREreview will work with Open Research Funders Group (ORFG) and Health Research Alliance (HRA) to develop Open Grant Reviewers, a mentoring and training program for grant reviewers

The Open Reviewers Toolkit is now openly available

September 20, 2021 – The PREreview team is very excited to announce the publication of the Open Reviewers Toolkit, three guides to help with the unbiased composition and assessment of research manuscripts' review. The

Join us on Peer Review Week 2021

Together with AfricArXiv, Eider Africa, TCC Africa, we are pleased to host a 90-minute long roundtable discussion, bringing African perspectives to the global conversation around this years’ Peer Review Week’s theme, “Identity

Introducing PREreview Communities

What is a PREreview Community?PREreview Communities are preprint reviewing groups that form around an identity, research topic, an institution, a laboratory, a journal club, a program, or any other dimension that may

Best Practices and Innovative Approaches to Peer Review

A Three-Part Collaborative Peer Review Workshop AfricArXiv, Eider Africa, TCC Africa, and PREreview are joining forces to bring together scholars from across Africa and scholars engaged in African-related research for a series of

PREreview Open Reviewers: Reflections on the Pilot Program

Word cloud created on Sli.do by asking the 10 mentees to describe their experience with the PREreview Open Reviewers pilot program.Last fall we launched Open Reviewers, a training and mentoring program

PREreview Open Reviewers – Meet our Pilot Participants

PREreview Open Reviewers is a peer review mentoring program that empowers early-career researchers (ECRs) to contribute to scholarly peer review, centering issues of equity, diversity, and inclusion. The pilot started in October 2020,

Call to Help Rapidly Review COVID-19 Preprints

Organizations that have signed and endorsed the Open Letter published on April 27, 2020.The COVID-19 pandemic is pushing the boundaries of research evaluation and dissemination towards more collaborative and open workflows that

Join us for the PREreview Open Source Software & Design Sprint

It was February 2019 when we gathered a group of researchers, publishers, policy makers, and designers in London to brainstorm ideas on how to design a platform that would allow scientists to rapidly

Raising Voices Through Preprint Journal Clubs

Image by eLife.Core to PREreview's mission is increasing diversity and inclusion in scholarly peer review. We have built spaces for researchers to openly share their constructive rapid and full reviews of manuscript