We hope to overcome both of those barriers by incentivizing the hosting of preprint JCs, by providing
support and training for preprint peer review, and by creating a space to collaboratively engage with preprints and share constructive feedback. We hope that by encouraging the hosting of preprint JCs at research institutions worldwide, the benefits and impact of preprints will be acknowledged and preprinting will become the norm in the scholarly communication of science.
Our Team
Daniela and
Sam are two neuroscientists driven by a common passion for improving the scientific ecosystem by creating a more open and communal way of doing science. As a Mozilla Working Open Workshop project, we have developed PREreview in the open from day one, inspired by the work of Mozilla and OpenCon. Now we want to share what we have learned and help others experience the benefits of an open scientific culture. Since we met in April 2017, we have worked relentlessly in our ‘spare time’ to craft and nurture our desire to see preprints adopted and valued by other scientists. In less than one year, we have grown from having a few Google docs worth of resources on how to start preprint journal clubs, to having built significant community support, with a growing PREreview community members and more than 700
Twitter followers. With the help and support from the members of our community – particularly from what later became our Advisory Board – we have come this far. Now we want to push the dream even further: we want to change the ‘who’ and ‘how’ of scholarly evaluation.
How to get started?
Here is an example of a review to a preprint that was discussed at the Systems Neuroscience JC at Oregon Health & Science University last spring.
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