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!

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Red poppies under morning sun in România, Comuna Șoarș, Romania by corina ardeleanu

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!

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Join Us on colorful dice by AzriSuratmin from Getty Images

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

Raised Hands of Different Types of People by gmarc2
Raised Hands of Different Types of People by gmarc2

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

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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


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