2024 Q2 PREreview Advisory Committee Meeting Minutes

PREreview Advisory Committee Meeting Minutes 2024-6-18

2024 Quarter 2: 18 JUNE 2024 / 21:00 UTC

Monica Granados, Sarah Greaves, Samantha Hindle, Christopher Marcum, Aurelia Munene, Kristen Ratan, Daniela Saderi

Agenda

Reviewed status of 2024 OKRs
Fundraising updates - CZI and BMGF
Governance and organizational structure updates
7 AC members
Treasurer role not yet filled
New staff roles / hires discussed
Product updates :
New ORCID integration - PREreview can now add (with permission) PREreviews to users’ ORCID profiles
Users publishing PREreviews can now automatically add authors to a PREreview
Search and filtering restored on PREreview.org
OpenAI integrated into Slack Community provides helpful threads for each review request from bioRxiv and SciELO preprint users
Requests and reviews can now be filtered by language (currently English, Spanish, Portuguese)
Search being restored on PREreview to find published PREreviews by author and/or title
Community updates:
19 PREreview Champions trained and undertaking outreach activities around the globe
Champions Handbook developed and published under CC BY 4.0
4 Open Reviewers workshops ran in H1 training 102 researchers
Digital badges created for greater recognition of trained reviewers and PREreview Champions
4 Live Reviews published from collaboration with JMIR
2 organizational membership model design sprints (w/ Product Team)
6 PREreview talks at international industry events
2,072 newsletter subscribers, 302 Slack community members, and 5,059 social media subscribers as of the end of May 2024
2024 OKRs review
FY2025 Budget projection
Organizational membership model
Communication Norms for AC
3-year Strategic Plan