Meeting

At the ‘Supporting interoperability of preprint peer review metadata’ workshop, held on October 17 & 18 at Hinxton Hall, UK, and co-organized by Europe PMC and ASAPbio, representatives from preprint review projects, infrastructure providers, publishers, funders, and other stakeholders convened to collaboratively determine the key elements of preprint review metadata and mechanisms for sharing this information. Over two […]

Public review of preprints offers many benefits. It enables reviewers to focus on the science itself, allows authors to engage in constructive dialog with reviewers, and provides context on preprints for readers. cOAlition S and EMBO Postdoctoral Fellowships have recently announced that they recognize peer-reviewed preprints as peer-reviewed publications, and some journals are accepting reviews from services such as Peer […]

Public feedback on preprints can unlock their full potential to accelerate science. Public preprint review can help authors improve their paper, find new collaborators, and gain visibility. It also helps readers find interesting and relevant papers and contextualize them with the reactions of experts in the field. Never has this been more apparent than in […]