The next time you log in to PREreview.org, be sure to customize your profile! New options make it easier than ever to share your interests and experiences with PREreviewers, preprint authors, and editors across the community. Check out https://prereview.org/my-details to get started!
Why should I update my profile?
The big idea is to help make other community members more aware of all your amazing contributions to open, peer preprint review so that you can find other reviewers, authors, and editors to collaborate with in the future. (Maybe you’ll even start a PREreview Club together!)
We hope that by providing community members with a more robust profile, it will be easier for them to share their work and interests with other community members, to find new partnerships for their scholarship, and to get increased recognition for their contributions to PREreview.org and open research in general.
By sharing the link to your public profile, you can let others know a bit about yourself and a whole lot about your contributions to open peer review.
With the launch of Structured PREreviews, it’s also easier than ever to deliver timely, substantive feedback to preprint authors, so now is a great time to customize your profile on PREreview.org ahead of all the Structured PREreview activity you might be adding there soon.
What can I add to my profile?
Once you log in, you can use the “My Details” page on PREreview.org to share your:
- Career stage.
- PREreview Slack community handle.
- Research interests.
- Location.
- Languages.
Each of those items can be toggled between 3 privacy settings. You can:
- Keep any of those pieces of information private.
- Share any of those pieces of information publicly.
- Share any of those pieces of information only with other logged in members of the PREreview community.
Once you connect your PREreview Slack community account with your PREreview.org account, you can also disconnect it at any time.
As always, your public profile will share your name, ORCID iD, and review activity by default along with any other items you choose to share.
Your pseudonymous profile will only share your pseudonym and the review activity associated with it. No information from your public profile will ever be attached.
You can preview how both of those profiles pages will display for others from your My Details page, as well, to make sure that you're sharing exactly - and only - what you want to share by customizing your profile on PREreview.org.
Very soon, our overhauled Profile customization options will also ask for your email. However, your email address will only be accessible to PREreview.org staff and used when necessary for things like Code of Conduct issues or permitted user notifications and communications. Your profile will not share your email address publicly or with other PREreview.org users.
What’s next for PREreview.org?
We’ll return to profiles in 2024 to optimize them further based on feedback from community members like you. We’ll be overhauling our registration workflow and search features throughout the rest of 2023 and piloting the ability to request-a-review with a few partnered preprint servers. We’ll be gathering end-of-year feedback on all our recent changes, as well.
If you have feedback about customizing your profile on PRErevidew.org or any other part of the platform to share, please schedule a user research interview with Product Manager Chad Sansing. Click here to sign up for a chat. If you can’t find a time that works for you, please email Chad to arrange a call. Whenever possible, we compensate interviewees.
Stay connected
Be sure to join our Slack community to continue conversations with other PREreviewers whose profiles and work you discover on PREreview.org.
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About the author(s)
Chad Sansing is the Product Manager at PREreview.org. Whenever he’s not at work learning more about how best to improve the site for our users, you can find him drawing, gaming, reading, walking, or hanging out with family, friends, and chief canine officer Sleepy the Dog.
