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Blog Category: Preprint Review

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Partnering with PREreview to host a live preprint journal club

ASAPbio’s Preprint Reviewer Recruitment Network aims to help researchers, especially ECRs, break into reviewing or editing roles by sharing their comments and reviews of preprints as examples of their work.  Comments and feedback to preprints ... We are partnering with PREreview to host a live-streamed preprint journal club, an opportunity for researchers in the Network to experience a live, collaborative review of a preprint, and be publicly recognized for their contributions as part of a gr...
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Crowd preprint review update on Sciety

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‘How to peer review’ workshops for the Preprint Reviewer Recruitment Network

ASAPbio’s Preprint Reviewer Recruitment Network aims to help researchers, especially ECRs, break into reviewing or editing roles by sharing their comments and reviews of preprints as examples of their work. We recognize that people have diverse backgrounds and prior experiences in peer review.
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Tackling information overload: identifying relevant preprints and reviewers

The growth of preprints in the life sciences has amplified earlier concerns about the challenges of keeping abreast of the latest research findings. Researchers need to keep up to date not only with the most recent publications in journals but also with the latest scholarly work posted on preprint servers.
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Curation and review in the preprint landscape

By Victoria Yan At the ASAPbio #FeedbackASAP meeting held on July 21st, 2021, the Sciety team (Hannah Drury, Godwyns Onwuchekwa, and Paul Shannon) led an interactive session examining different aspects of the evolving landscape of preprint curation a... Through a mind-mapping exercise, the group identified highlighting, providing context, and selecting articles as some examples of what curation means.
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Considering campaigns to post journal reviews on preprints

As part of the July 21, 2021 FeedbackASAP meeting, Ludo Waltman (CWTS, Leiden University), James Fraser (UCSF), Cooper Smout (Free Our Knowledge) organized a breakout session entitled “Posting journal reviews on preprints” to identity an evolutio... The organizers opened the session with some prompts to gauge participants’ experiences with preprinting and peer review.
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