Halfway through the year, a lot is in motion at PREreview platform and beyond. From building a more multilingual site to gathering in community around preprint and dataset review, we’re heading there side-by-side.
Register for our next collaborative preprint discussion
All open peer reviewers are invited to take part in our next community Live Review on June 25, 2026, at 15:00 UTC. We will get together to provide respectful and constructive feedback to this preprint:
“Safety Monitoring of Multiple Health Outcomes Following 2023–2024 COVID-19 Vaccination among Medicare Beneficiaries Aged 65 Years and Older in the United States” by Joann F. Gruber, Michelle Ondari, Carla E. Zelaya, Chunyi Xia, Fengdi Zhang, Jessica R. Hervol, Jin Ye, Meng Chen, Yutong Qin, Mao Hu, Yoganand Chillarige, Richard A. Forshee & Steven A. Anderson.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1101/2025.01.03.25319975
The Live Review session will be hosted by two facilitators from the PREreview team, and will be joined by Dr. Christopher Steven Marcum (PREreview Advisory Committee Chair) in the role of invited expert, and researchers from around the world.
PREreview in dialogue
Daniela Saderi at Career Development Lab for displaced scholars
The Scholar Rescue Fund, the Global Young Academy, and the NAS New Voices fellowship are collaborating to offer a career development workshop for researchers who have been displaced or forced to leave their countries because of conflict, censorship, persecution, or violations of human rights. The initiative’s objective is to help them navigate the landscape in the US and Canada as they make their transitions—either staying in academia or leaving for non-academic roles.
On Day 1 of the workshop, PREreview Executive Director Dr. Daniela Saderi will deliver a plenary talk where she'll explore the promise and challenges of Open Science and the role it can play in building a more equitable and resilient research ecosystem.
At PREreview, we believe the Open Science movement should challenge existing power imbalances and address the ways systems of oppression shape how research is produced, shared, and evaluated. At a time when researchers around the world are navigating increasing uncertainty, restrictions, and threats to academic freedom, the values of Open Knowledge matter more than ever. Building a more open research ecosystem is not only about access, but also about ensuring that everyone is free to contribute their expertise, participate in meaningful dialogue, and help shape a more just and equitable future for all.
Interview for the Review and Curate Network podcast
In the latest episode of the “Open Science: Building Inclusive and Equitable Research Ecosystems in Africa” podcast series, Daniela (PREreview) and TOLULOPE OGUNNIYI explored how early-career researchers can leverage preprints as tools for learning, collaboration, research visibility, and capacity building within the global open science community.
Listen to the full interview here and share your thoughts in the comment section! Additional resources and useful links mentioned during the conversation are available in the description.
Fostering more multilingual conversations at PREreview
In line with our commitment to lowering barriers for meaningful and broad engagement with preprint review, this year we’re expanding the translation and localization of PREreview.org into Modern Standard Arabic (ARB) and African French (FR 002).
This initiative, as all we do at PREreview, is advancing in close, trusting collaboration with our community members from around the world. After an informative session hosted on June 2 where we shared the timeline for this round of translations and did a demo on using Crowdin, we’re now set up to kickoff the work.
If you’d like to help make PREreview.org a more multilingual space for scholarly communications, you can join our Crowdin project and start contributing to the language of your preference. From mid-June through August, we’ll be adding translated strings of text from PREreview’s platform onto Crowdin for community review.
💡 PRO TIP: You can also try out editing translated text within a visual context here: http://translate.prereview.org
First ever dataset review published on PREreview.org!
Last week, the FORCE11 PREreview Club published the first review using PREreview's new workflow for reviewing datasets. It was the result of a collaborative Live Review, where 11 people had a lively and thoughtful discussion on a dataset containing article-level data for 2,680 Science papers published between 2021 and 2024, deposited on Dryad. We invite you to read and engage with their dataset PREreview to keep the conversation going!
This occasion is a huge milestone in our journey to make community evaluation of diverse research outputs a common practice, and we expect many more dataset PREreviews to come. If you feel motivated by the FORCE11 Club’s experience, you can watch this tutorial on how to use the dataset review workflow and try it out yourself.
Platform news
Opt-in to email notifications for your requested PREreviews!
After community members’ suggestions, we recently added email notifications to requests. Now you can opt-in to receiving an email whenever a PREreview is published for one of your requested preprints. All you need to do is log in, go to “My details” on the menu bar, and enable “Requested review notifications”.
📬 Start tracking your PREreview requests and enjoy reading community feedback in real time!
Share your feedback on our matchmaking experiment
Have you tried our matchmaking experiment yet? All you need are a handful of DOIs from preprints and/or published articles you’ve enjoyed reading or reviewing. Copy and paste them into the form, and the system will return suggested preprints for review from the requests we’ve received from our community members since late 2023 onwards.
Events
Upcoming events
- June 9, 2026 - 17:00 UTC — “What Mutual Aid Gets Right: Practices Nonprofits Need Now” free-of-charge strategy session. More info and registration.
- June 29, 2026 - 16:00 UTC — ICOR Meeting: “Want to Make Science Work Better? Let’s Talk About How”. The spotlight will be on the work of ‘Designing a new research communication paradigm,’ an Action Collaborative that emerged from the NASEM Roundtable for Aligning Incentives for Open Scholarship. Learn more and register.
- July 21, 2026 - 16:00 UTC — ASAPbio Community Call: “How PLOS is Redefining Publishing to Go Beyond Articles and APCs” by Veronique Kiermer, Chief Scientific Officer at PLOS. Register
Recent events
- April, 2026 — “Enhancing Scientific Integrity: Progress and Opportunities in the Social and Behavioral Sciences - A Workshop”, by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. Recording and materials are available.
Highlights from our Slack Community
- What we are reading:
Licensing Best Practices for Sharing Scientific Data, by Creative Commons
Doing Science in the Age of AI, when the system isn’t built for you, by Seun Olufemi (2024 PREreview Champion)
The Matthew effect in AI summary, by Jefferson Pooley
You can just review things: A digital ethnography of informal peer review, by Jay Patel & Joel Chan
- Denice W. Ross and Christopher S. Marcum (PREreview Advisory Committee Chair) created “The Federal Data Field Guide”, an accessible resource to help navigate various types of US federal data for research purposes.
- Registration for the LMU Open Science Summer School 2026 is open until July 6! Although the program takes place in Munich, public lectures can be attended via Zoom (registration open anytime). Recordings of the lectures, slides, and workshops materials will be accessible in a repository.
- OpenRxiv introduced a new feature that allows changing the license on an existing bioRxiv/medRxiv preprint to be less restrictive.
- Translate Science, a community of interest around multilingual open science, is calling on like-minded folks to join their PREreview Club! No specific academic background or experience is required. Sign up here.
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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