As the year draws to a close, December offers a natural moment to pause, reflect, and reconnect. It’s a time to take stock of the months behind, look ahead to new possibilities, and find meaningful ways to mark the transition into a fresh year. So, whether you’re wrapping up projects, planning for what’s next, or simply looking forward to taking a well-earned breather, we’re grateful to share the latest of what we have been up to with you and for what lies ahead in 2026.
Welcoming Pía to the PREreview team!
This month, the PREreview Team is very excited to welcome María Pía Tavella as the new Communications and Engagement Officer! In this role, Pía will play a crucial part in clearly and effectively communicating our work and boosting engagement among various audiences, including researchers, students, publishers, funders, like-minded organizations, and the wider community.
PREreview on tour in Toronto
Last month, the PREreview team met up in the beautiful city of Toronto, Canada, for our annual retreat! As a fully remote organization, we make the effort to meet up in person once a year to discuss where we are at and the future of PREreview, strategic planning, goal setting, and to build relationships with one another outside of our day-to-day work.
We also want to thank JMIR Publications for their generous hospitality. They gave us full access to their beautiful office, including coffee, tea, treats, and many friendly smiles!
Champions Program 2025 Wrap-Up
We have come to the end of another successful PREreview Champions Program, and we invite you to join us in celebrating with the team on their huge achievements this year.
To complete the Champions Program, we asked all participants to undertake at least one engagement activity within the six-month program period. Almost all Champions (21/23) successfully completed at least one engagement activity, collectively reaching over 800 members of their local communities around the world!
Champions also helped us to translate and localize many of our resources, created multilingual videos, developed new workshop activities aimed at new audiences such as undergraduate students, founded new PREreview Clubs, and introduced us to new organizations and initiatives to collaborate with in the future. To read more about the team, their activities, and what they thought of being a PREreview Champion, read our wrap-up blog post.
You can now review datasets on PREreview.org!
You can now review datasets on PREreview.org! With help from community members and the Data Rescue Project, we developed a new workflow for reviewing datasets as modular objects, independent of the preprints in which they might appear.
We're beginning with support for Dryad and will add platforms as we go. Please let us know which data publication platforms you think we ought to add next by writing to us at help@prereview.org
Join our modular peer review working group
In collaboration with the Continuous Science Foundation, we are launching a Modular Peer Review Working Group in January!
You can sign up to be part of the group that will help co-create peer review models for a modular research world where methods, data, code, and visuals are shared (and reviewed) piece by piece.
🚀 Kickoff: January 22, 2026, at 18:00 UTC
📅 Monthly working sessions:
- February 17, 2026 at 18:00 UTC
- March 17, 2026 at 17:00 UTC
- April 21, 2026 at 17:00 UTC
- May 19, 2026 at 17:00 UTC
🎉 Virtual Celebration: June 16, 2026, at 17:00 UTC
What we’ll tackle together:
- Reviewing non-traditional research outputs
- Building trust without gatekeeping
- Making modular review meaningful, usable, and reusable
Check out our new public stats dashboard
Curious about the impact your participation can make on PREreview.org? Check out our new public stats dashboard to learn more about how community members like you are nurturing growth in open, community review of early research outputs like preprints. You can access information about reviews, requests, PREreview Clubs, and traffic on our website.
If there are other types of anonymized, aggregated data you'd like us to share, please make a suggestion by writing to us at help@prereview.org
Highlights from the Slack Community
- Do you want to make a global impact through your scholarly knowledge? If so, you can express your interest in hosting events and/or filming videos with Rising Scholars in 2026.
- Daniela Saderi shared a new tool by Dr Antoinette Foster, co-author of many PREreview resources and practices: “Features of a Growth-Oriented Lab Environment," a free tool for cultural diagnosis of your lab.
- Vanessa Fairhurst requests help in compiling some user stories. Tell us about your experiences with PREreview and what benefits you have gained from being a part of our community.
- Luis Montilla posted the call for the second Crossref metadata sprint. This event will be held in São Paulo in March 2026. You can express interest in participating and pitch your project ideas.
- OpenRxiv have announced their collaboration with QED Science.
- Ivan shared how PREreview is mentioned in an article by Mark Williams at Sciety on Bridging preprints and the Fediverse: Start discussions on Sciety, and continue them everywhere.
- Sergey discussed how to define preprints and how they may still be too narrowly defined within traditional publishing landscapes.
- If you are looking for your new career step, check out the job vacancies open 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.
Events
Upcoming events
- Dec 15 @ 7am UTC — Peer Review & Research Integrity Webinar hosted by TCC Africa and Scifiniti - register - recording.
- SAVE THE DATE: Jan 29, 2026 @12pm US EST / 5pm UTC — PREreview: Transforming Peer Review with Researchers, for Communities, hosted by Data Umbrella - register
- SAVE THE DATE: Jan 21, 2026 @11am US EST / 4pm UTC — PREreview 3Y Strategic Plan: soliciting community input. Registration information coming soon.
Recent events
- Oct 13 — Who Has a Voice in Open Science - Preprints.org Webinar - virtual - recording and slides.
- Oct 17 — Club Comunidad Iberoamericana de Ciencia Abierta (CIbCA) Launch + Open Peer Review Workshop - online - hosted by OpenLab Ecuador and facilitated by PREreview Champions Rosario Rogel, Edilson Damasio and Laura Camelo - recording (in Spanish).
- Oct 17-19 — Thriving Together Meeting with representatives from PREreview The Carpentries, Open Life Science, rOpenSci and pyOpenSci - in-person, San Diego, CA.
- Oct 20-22 — Chan Zuckerberg Initiative Open Science Meeting 2025 - in-person, San Diego, CA - photos.
- Oct 23 — Launch event of openRxiv - in-person, San Diego, CA.
- Oct 30-Nov 1 — SACNAS NDiSTEM conference - in-person, Columbus, Ohio - Daniela Saderi and Janaynne Carvalho do Amaral co-facilitated an Open Reviewers Workshop - slides and accompanying workshop materials.
- Nov 6-7 — Scientific Standards Workshop hosted by openRxiv and Continuous Science Foundation - in-person, San Diego, CA - workshop summary.
- Nov 17 — Open Reviewers Workshop - Lecture as part of the Graduate Level Scientific Logic Course at Oregon Health & Science University (OHSU) - in person, Portland, OR, US - slides and accompanying workshop materials.
- Nov 26 — Introduction to Preprints webinar - hosted by Digital Hub for Open Research in East Africa and facilitated by Vanessa Fairhurst and Aneth David - recording and slides.
- Nov 27 — Open Peer Review for an Equitable Research Ecosystem: PREreview’s Model and Vision - Segundo Congreso Iberoamericano de Ciencia Abierta 2025 - hybrid - presented by PREreview Champion Rosario Rogel - slides and recording.
- Dec 2 — Open Peer Review for Early Career Researchers webinar - hosted by Digital Hub for Open Research in East Africa and facilitated by Vanessa Fairhurst and Aneth David - recording and slides.
- Dec 2-3 — COAR Meeting - Publish, Review, Curate: Turning scholarly publishing on its head - in-person, Cambridge.
- Dec 4 — Live Review in collaboration with the Rare As One Network - review published soon.
Image credits: SUMALI IBNU CHAMID, ELCREATIVE, Glyphinder, Continuous Science Foundation, Muhammad Haris Khan, Slack, nikastock.
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