Improving research and expanding open peer review

eLife, a “publish, review, curate” open access, non-profit life sciences and medicine publisher, and PREreview, a collaborative, open peer review platform, are furthering their collaboration to engage more scholars from communities around the world in preprint review. Together they’ve offered peer review training programs for early-career researchers in a joint project with AfricArXiv, Eider Africa and TCC Africa. Their goal is to improve and strengthen research globally by engaging multiple perspectives from traditionally marginalized communities in preprint review. Both eLife and PREreview operate open access and open source platforms, and they are integrating them with each other and with ORCID, so that any researcher with an ORCID ID can request and share reviews to any preprint with a digital object identifier (DOI). These are welcomed efforts to build more robust technical and human partnerships in service of open science.

Author: Christine Turner

Scholarly Communication Librarian at UMass Amherst

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