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Announcing our 2025 PREreview Champions! 🎉

The PREreview Champions Program is a cohort program running for 6 months between March and September 2025, aimed at empowering exceptional community members to expand the mission of PREreview and better support systematically disadvantaged researchers.

Equity, Diversity, Inclusion, and Accessibility Are Not Optional—They Are Essential

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🎊 PREreview January 2025 Newsletter 🎊

Welcome to 2025 and the first PREreview newsletter of the year! 🥳 Inside, we’ve got some exciting updates, engaging opportunities, and even more events that we’d like to share.

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Announcing the 2025 PREreview Champions Program!

At PREreview, we work to support and empower systematically disadvantaged researchers to help them find a voice, train, and engage in open, equitable, collaborative peer review. As such, we are excited to announce our second year of the PREreview Champions Program!

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Welcome Grace!

This week the PREreview Team is very excited to welcome Grace Park as the new Communications and Engagement Officer! In this new role, Grace will play a crucial role in clearly and effectively

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November 2024 Newsletter

As the year winds down, we find ourselves reflecting on accomplishments over the last few months, with gratitude for the milestones we've reached and excitement for what's ahead, read on to find out

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The PREreview Champions Pilot Program Wrap-Up

Here we want to say a huge THANK YOU to all the participants of our pilot program for all their work and dedication, and for being a key part of our community. Read on to learn more about their achievements, their reflections on the program, and our plans for the 2025 cohort!

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PREreview September 2024 Newsletter

Get involved in Peer Review Week later this month, check out updates from our community members in Slack, and find out about upcoming events - read on to find out more!

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From global to local: join our next community design sprint on localization and translation

World Diversity by wildpixel from Getty ImagesJoin us this September during Peer Review Week to help us localize and translate PREreview.org and our open preprint review resources into Brazilian Portuguese and Latin

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PREreview July 2024 Newsletter

We're excited to bring you the latest updates and highlights from our community. This month, we have some big news, events, and opportunities to share, there's something for everyone. Read on to find

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How Collaborative Peer Review Can Transform Scientific Research

In this special guest blog piece, PREreview Champion, Ebuka Ezeike discusses the benefits that collaborative peer review can bring and how it has the potential to accelerate scientific progress and foster a more open and supportive research environment.

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Championing Preprints: A Call for Recognition in African Research Settings

In this special guest blog piece, PREreview Champion, Seun Olufemi, reflects on his own experiences and advocates for greater inclusion and recognition of preprint articles and preprint peer reviews as legitimate academic contributions within African research settings.

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PREreview May 2024 Newsletter

Welcome to the May 2024 edition of the PREreview newsletter! We're thrilled to have you join us, read on to find out more about the newest developments on PREreview.org, upcoming events, and the latest news from our community.

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PREreview Organizational Membership Model Design Sprints - What We Learned

On April 10 we held two community design sprints—at two different times to accommodate our global community, aimed at collecting input to help us shape our new Organizational Membership Model.

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PREreview March 2024 Newsletter

Welcome to the March 2024 edition of the PREreview newsletter and Happy International Women's Day to all our community members! We continuously strive to inspire greater inclusion by providing all researchers with a

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Announcing our 2024 PREreview Champions!

The PREreview Champions Program is a cohort program running for 6 months between February and July 2024 aimed at empowering 20 exceptional community members to expand the mission of PREreview and better support

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PREreview January Newsletter

Happy New Year! Welcome to the January 2024 edition of the PREreview newsletter. 2023 has been a year of reflection, radical listening, and rebuilding. So much was achieved and so much more we

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Announcing the PREreview Champions Program!

At PREreview, we work to better support and empower systematically disadvantaged scientists to help them find a voice, train, and engage in peer review. PREreview was founded by researchers wanting to provide greater

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PREreview November Newsletter

Welcome to the November edition of the PREreview newsletter and the last one of the year! We’ll be convening one more series of PREreview community design sprints before the end of 2023

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Newsletter: September

Welcome to the September edition of the PREreview newsletter, where the winds of change are bringing fresh perspectives and exciting new possibilities! Read on to find out more about the big updates to

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Newsletter: July

Welcome to another exciting edition of the PREreview newsletter! Somehow we are already over half way through 2023 - the year is flying by but it's also a good opportunity to reflect on

Introducing our new PREreview Slack Community: Come join the conversation!

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PREreview and CRNEUR launch a collaborative and community-based review pilot

We are thrilled to announce a new collaboration between PREreview and Current Research in Neurobiology (CRNEUR)—a gold open access journal that publishes original research in neuroscience. Together we will host 5 open,

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Newsletter: May 2023

This month we have got lots of ways in which you can get involved at PREreview from community calls, our first free Open Peer Reviewers workshops, community design sprints, and more! Free, online,

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Newsletter: March 2023

We're calling it, it's officially Spring! The start of the year has flown by for the PREreview team but we are looking forward to some sunshine and implementing some exciting new developments to