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 out more and get involved!
PREreview welcomes new funding!
We are delighted to announce PREreview has received a three-year grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to support research communities in adopting and advocating for open and equitable peer-review practices.
Daniela Saderi, Co-founder and Executive Director of PREreview, says
"With this investment from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, we are poised to demonstrate our commitment to making community-led preprint review a reality within a diverse, open, and equitable scholarly communication landscape. We are thankful for the support and honored to serve a growing community of open preprint reviewers.”
We are hiring!
Come join us at PREreview as our new Communication and Engagement Officer!
Position type: Fixed term, full-time global* remote employment. (*Visit Remote.com for a complete list of the non-US countries eligible for employment.)
Compensation: $60,000 - $70,000 USD per year, plus benefits (including medical and dental insurance, short- and long-term disability, retirement, paid vacation)
Location: Fully remote, with occasional travel
Job length: 3 years grant-funded position, with potential for longer employment depending on performance and funds available
Works with: Primary supervision based in the UK with collaborators based in US Pacific and US Eastern time zones
Application deadline: August 15, 2024
Preferred start date: October 1, 2024
Welcome New Advisory Board Members!
PREreview is excited to welcome two new fantastic members to our Advisory Committee. Please join us in welcoming Aurelia Muthoni Munene and Christopher Steven Marcum!
We were humbled by the excellent applications, enthusiasm, and commitment to open scholarship, and we thank all applicants. Our next round of recruitment will begin next Autumn. In this round we did not succeed at recruiting a Treasurer, if you believe you would be a good fit for this position, please contact us at contact@prereview.org.
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.
We also run regular Live Reviews. Our next is in collaboration with JMIR Publications on July 18, sign up to be part of the process or get in touch if you would like to organize your own.
PREreview.org updates - 2024 so far
We’ve done a lot of work on the product side of PREreview in the first half of 2024 thanks to ongoing feedback from our wonderful community members.
- We launched a new ORCID integration
- We automated the process for adding multiple authors to collaborative PREreviews.
- We added filtering by language and OpenAlex fields for published PREreviews and requests for review.
- We added title and author search.
- We improved tagging on requests for review, using subfields from OpenAlex, to help PREreviewers find relevant preprints to review.
- Community members have also started several new PREreview Clubs.
And much more!
Highlights from the Slack Community
- Have you responded to a request for review on PREreview.org or Slack yet? If so, let us know how the process went for you
- Vanessa would like your help in gathering case studies highlighting the impact and use of PREreview resources. Get in touch with her to share yours.
- Safieh would like to start a feminist PREreview Club, let her know if you would like to get involved.
- The OSTP has issued an ‘Updated Report on Financing Mechanisms for Open Access Publishing of Federally Funded Research’. Detailing various OA initiatives including PREreview!
- Participate in the STAIRCASE Survey: Shaping the Future of Research Culture. The survey aims to identify key factors that promote healthy and sustainable working conditions within academia.
- Summer is looking for life science students & researchers who use literature search tools to join a focus group.
- Udit shared an eLife article on ‘Open Science: Why you should preprint your next paper’
- Daniela shared a Daily Nous article on ‘An Opportunity for Reforming Peer Review’
- Vanessa shared that this year’s Peer Review Week theme is “Innovation and Technology in Peer Review”. Still plenty of time to get involved.
- Lamis shared news of the "Mycetoma MicroImage: Detect and Classify" Challenge, part of the upcoming MICCAI 2024 conference, to be held in Marrakesh, Morocco, learn more and register.
- Anna posted details of ASAPbio’s July Community Call: Research integrity, trust markers and forensic scientometrics
- Zuzanna is conducting a survey on Open Science within the field of ecology and evolutionary biology. Learn more and participate here.
- Ebuka shared the recording and slides from the AfricArXiv Open Science webinar ‘Exploring the Openness of Global Research Landscapes Using Open Data: The COKI Open Access Dashboard'
- Also, check out the #jobs-and-opportunities!
Events
Where we've been:
- 6 May - 2024 CSE Annual Meeting - A Community-Based and Scholar-Led Open Research System: What Will This Look Like and How Do We Get There?, Portland, OR, USA - in-person
- 20 & 22 May - Open Peer Review workshop in collaboration with the African Reproducibility Network (AREN) - online
- 23 May - Live Review with JMIR Publications - online - published PREreview
- 30 May - ORCID in the Wild featuring PREreview - online - recording and slides
- 11 Jun - ‘Opening up....peer review’ with Sussex University Library - recording
- 11-14 Jun - CZI 2024 Open Science Meeting, Boston MA, USA - in person - slides
- 20 June - Live Review with JMIR Publications - online - published PREreview
- 9 July - PREreview Community Open Reviewers workshop - online - recording and slides
Upcoming:
- 15 July - Live Review with the African Reproducibility Network (AREN) - online
- 18 July - Live Review with JMIR Publications - online - register
- 29-31 Jul- FSCI: PREreview Open Reviewers Workshop: A Hands-On Ethical Peer Review Training Program For Researchers of All Career Levels - register
- 1-3 Aug - FORCE 11 Conference - register
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