Lively conversations, renewed motivation, and stimulating challenges for this turning season. Let’s dive in together.
Building alternative pathways: PREreview joins the PRC Alliance
PREreview joined a working group convened by the Confederation of Open Access Repositories (COAR) and ASAPbio to shape a new PRC Alliance—a membership association designed to accelerate adoption of the Publish, Review, Curate (PRC) model across scholarly publishing.
PRC is a publishing model that separates research sharing from its evaluation: researchers first publish their work as preprints (and associated research objects), communities review it openly, and journals or platforms curate it. This approach makes research assessment more transparent, decentralized, and community-driven.
We’re excited about this model because it elevates early sharing, embeds review across the research lifecycle, and re-centers researchers’ agency. Built on shared standards and interoperability, it helps create a more connected, collaborative ecosystem for research.
PREreview.org already has several components that enable anyone with an ORCID record to do post-publication review of preprints and datasets. Here is an example of how PREreview can fit in a PRC workflow in practice, with all steps connected via COAR Notify:
📧 Interested in chatting with us about how we can connect with your research communication system or infrastructure? Send us an email to community@prereview.org.
Test our experimental preprint matchmaking feature!
How do you find a preprint to review on PREreview.org? Do you come with a DOI in mind, browse feedback requests, or use another approach? However you do it, we’d love your input on ways to better help you discover manuscripts to review that match your expertise and interests.
We recently soft-launched an experimental matchmaking feature which connects PREreviewers with preprints relevant to them. To begin, you paste in the DOIs or URLs of research objects like preprints and published articles related to your expertise or the topics you care about. With that information, the system gives you suggestions of preprints you may want to read and review.
Contact us at help@prereview.org if you want to share your feedback or schedule a 1:1 user research interview with our product team.
A team effort: Why and how to do open collaborative peer review
On March 5th, we co-hosted a lively Community Call with ASAPbio to explore the power of collaborative peer review and learn from our PREreview Club leads’ first-hand experience.
This decentralised approach improves the quality of manuscript evaluations through independent assessments sharing, group discussions, and consensus building, benefiting both the reviewers and the scientific community as a whole. Participants’ stories also prove the flexibility of collaborative review to fit different settings and workflows—from online global gatherings to in-person, university-based journal clubs!
Curious about how collaborative review works and how to get involved in a PREreview Club?
Meet 2026 PREreview Champions cohort
After completing a training on ethical and collaborative open peer review, seventeen wonderful people have become our new Champions, and are off to multiply PREreview’s mission and vision in their scholarly networks and local communities. Get to know them here and join us in celebrating their accomplishments.
We invite you to follow our social media updates to see the exciting things PREreview Champions are up to this year!
Catch us at the Council of Science Editors’ Annual Meeting
How could diversifying reviewer pools and fostering bias awareness reshape the research assessment landscape? On May 4th, PREreview staff members Chad Sansing and Chris Wilkinson, together with PREreview Champion alum Kylie Yui Dan (UMaryland) and others, will be discussing these topics during the 2026 CSE Annual Meeting in Durham, NC.
If you’re attending the event, come engage with our team at the “Confronting Bias Where It Is: Fostering Diversity Across the Physical Geographies and Digital Platforms of Peer Review” session!
Events
Upcoming events
- April 24, 2026 - 9:00 GMT — Open Research, Trust in Science and the ‘Transparency Paradox’. Register
- June 3-5, 2026 — FORCE11 2026 Conference, in Singapore. Theme: “To Go Far, Go Together: Advancing Scholarly Communication Across Boundaries and Disruptions”. Registration is open until May 24.
Recent events
- April 7, 2026 — Incentivizing Collaborative and Open Research (ICOR) meeting: “Aligning Research Curation and Open Assessment”. Learn more (Recording will be available soon).
- March 31, 2026 — “ORCID: Empowering Researchers in Open Science” webinar, hosted by the Review and Curate Network. Paolo P. Gujilde (Lyrasis) shared expert insights on visibility, attribution, and interoperability through ORCID. Recording available.
- March 5, 2026 — ASAPbio Community Call: "A Team Effort: Why and How to do Open Collaborative Peer Review". Recording and slides.
Highlights from the Slack Community
- What we are reading:
A Guide to Preprinting for Early Career Researchers
Rethinking Open Science Through Dependency Theory, by Batool Almarzouq
Charting New Paths: The Promise of Alternative Publishing Practices
- The PREreview Advisory Committee welcomes three new members this year!
- Review and Curate Network presented their new podcast series on Open Science principles.
- PLOS launched their new Open Science Indicators dashboard.
- Signals, an independent, publisher-neutral startup building the next generation of research analysis, is hiring a Data Analyst, a Support and Operations Specialist, a Customer Success Specialist, and a Full Stack Engineer. Learn more and apply.
- Dryad, an open data publishing platform and community, is hiring a Partnership Development Manager (Remote). Learn more and apply.
- Valency Systems, a small, dynamic team of engineers, scientists, and researchers building a hub for synthetic research, is hiring a summer intern in Open Science Tools (10-12 weeks in Berkeley, CA, US). Learn more and apply.
- ORCID’s Global Participation Fund (GPF) is designed to improve equity of access to ORCID and increase the visibility of researchers and research institutions globally, particularly in the Global South. Learn more about the GPF’s two grant programs and apply before May 1, 2026.
- La Red Latinoamericana para la Ciencia Abierta (LA Referencia) está buscando Especialista en metadatos y Profesionales de soporte técnico. Convocatorias abiertas hasta el 17 de abril.
If you are looking for your new career step, check out the openings in our #jobs-and-opportunities channel, and share any of your own.
You can also find lots of preprint authors requesting feedback on their work in our #request-a-review channel.
Stay connected
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