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 more in our final, bumper newsletter of the year.
We're celebrating some milestones at PREreview.org!
1,000 PREreviews published, 3,000 registered PREreview users, and 28 collaborative PREreview Clubs!
A huge thanks to you, our amazing community, for driving transparency and collaboration in peer review. Here’s to empowering and amplifying even more diverse voices in research evaluation!
Commenting is live on PREreview.org!
Whether you’re an author responding to community feedback or an expert reviewer keeping the conversation going, you can use our refreshed commenting feature to affirm, clarify, question, and continue sharing constructive comments on PREreview.org.Thank you to everyone who has provided us with feedback about this feature and waited patiently for commenting and author response to come to the site!
Learn more about how it works in Chad’s blog.
The PREreview Champions Pilot Program Wrap-Up
We are thrilled to celebrate the end of the first year of the PREreview Champions Program! Over the last year, 19 Champions equipped with training, resources, and a supportive community took forward the PREreview mission to their local communities, engaging around 250 researchers globally in open, preprint peer review.
Here we say a huge THANK YOU to all the participants of our pilot program for all their work and dedication. Read on to learn more about their achievements, their reflections, and our plans for the 2025 cohort! You can also register to receive news of our 2025 cohort.
Open Reviewers Toolkit Version 2.0!
We are happy to share our updated and revamped Open Reviewers Toolkit!
Including:
✨ The Reviewer Guide
✨ The Bias Reflection Guide
✨ The Review Assessment Rubric
You can find the toolkit along with numerous other useful materials on our Resources page.
Next up we will have multilingual versions of our toolkit, starting with Latin American Spanish and Brazilian Portuguese, which some of our amazing Champions have been helping us translate.
Join our last Live Review of 2024
Join our final collaborative Live Review event of the year with JMIR Publications on Thursday, December 12 at 17:00 UTC (find your local time here)
Together we’ll be discussing this preprint:
'Safety and Efficacy of Chimeric Antigen Receptor T-cell Therapy for Recurrent Glioblastoma: An Augmented Meta-analysis of Phase 1 Clinical Trials'
DOI: doi.org/10.1101/2024.10.23.24316015
Join as a reviewer, discussion participant, or simply to learn how it works! Participants have the option to help author the final review and to be credited for their efforts.
Final call to have your say in our 2024 Community Survey!
We would greatly appreciate a few more responses to our short survey to help us understand your experiences using PREreview as a valued member of our community.
The survey should only take 7-10 minutes of your time, and your insights will play a key role in guiding our efforts to better serve you and the wider community.
Highlights from the Slack Community
- Summer shared that Europe PMC is currently running a user survey. Survey responses will inform their roadmap and tool development, give your input here.
- Daniela shared a new sub-chapter from the Turing Way on Risks of Bias in Research.
- Roseline welcomes you to wrap up the year with the Rwanda Preprint Club's 2024 Annual Forum - Impact, Innovation, and a Roadmap for open science across Africa - takes place Dec 13, register here.
- Vanessa shared the conference report from The Paris Conference on Open Research Information detailing the next steps of the Barcelona Declaration.
- Anna invites you to share your early-stage research —negative data, new protocols, or unreplicated results— and enter the ASAPbio 2024 Poster Competition! Two $500 prizes are up for grabs, deadline Dec 1st.
- Chris would like your input in this survey from AAAS on author opinion of OA licensing.
- Daniela shared an article on ‘Toward Responsible Collection and Use of Demographic Information in Scholarly Publishing’.
- Jonny shared that a group of ASAPbio Fellows has posted a paper on institutional recognition of preprints with guidelines on implementing preprint and preprint peer review-friendly policies. They would love feedback before journal submission.
- Daniela posted this great resource explaining the Publish-Review-Curate model of scientific communication.
- Don’t forget to introduce yourself in the introductions channel, check out the various jobs-and-opportunities available, and take a look at where you can lend your expertise in our request-a-review channel
Events
Recent events:
- Sep 20 - Workshop Access to Science & Scholarship - in-person, Washington DC - panel on the 'Future of Peer Review' - event page and workshop report
- Sep 23-24 - Paris Conference on Open Research Information - conference report
- Sep 26 - Innovations in Peer Review CSE webinar - event page, slides
- Sep 27 - Live Review with JMIR Publications - published review
- Oct 9 - Live Review with the Rwanda Preprint Club - published review
- Oct 25 - Live Review with JMIR Publications - published review
- Oct 25 - Rochester Institute of Technology 21st Century Scholarship lecture - slides
- Nov 18 - Beneath the surface: Shattering illusions and embracing anti-oppression in peer review - in-person - organized by the Behavioral Neuroscience Graduate Program at Oregon Health & Science University
- Nov 19 - OLS/NASA-TOPS Session 10 - Open Results: Open Access Publication and Preprints - slides
Upcoming
- Nov 26 - 28 - Munin Conference on Scholarly Publishing - Vanessa will on a panel on ‘Transparency in Peer Review’ - in person - full agenda
- Dec 10 - 13 - HHMI Janelia Publishing workshop - Daniela will attend an in-person event to identify minimal standards for releasing scientific information and to explore improved structures and technologies for the future of scientific publishing.
- Dec 12 - Live Review with JMIR Publications - online - register
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