Blog Category: Preprint Sprint Proposals

https://www.tcc-africa.org/​ ​ https://info.africarxiv.org/ Joy Owango: ​[email protected] Havemann: ​[email protected]​ // ​[email protected] AfricArXiv is an Open Access portal launched in June 2018, which serv... Beyond that it serves as a hub and capacity building platform for Open Science practices primarily targeted at African scholars from across the continent.

Since the kickoff, we designed and began disseminating a survey among Editors or individuals in related roles associated with publishers part of the “C19 Rapid Review group (C19 RR)“. The goal is to better understand editorial needs and inform next steps in designing and implementing a seamless workflow integration between community reviews—preprint reviews authored by researchers in a journal-independent fashion—of COVID-19 p...

concept of a ‘market’ for peer review clearly resonated with a number of commentator which stimulated a number of reflections on the incentive structure for peer review, and the opportunities for exchanging peer review effort. Further, comments in a number of other projects suggested that market design and evaluation was an implicit (although perhaps unrecognized) theme of a number of proposed interventions.

Felix Richter (Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology, University of Oxford) Nicolas Vabret (Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York) COVID-19 Literature Review Oxford COVID-19 Mount Sinai References: 1 Vabret N, Samstein R, Fernandez N, Merad M... Advancing scientific knowledge in times of pandemics.

PREreview: Antoinette Foster, Monica Granados, Samantha Hindle, Katrina Murphy, Daniela Saderi Simply Secure: Georgia Bullen, Carissa Yao The Sprint confirmed that our project roadmap is developing along the right lines to meet the needs of the commu... The Sprint highlighted several common themes across the proposal—mainly the need to filter content and rapidly surface preprints of high importance, to fix the problems in the peer review system, and to create a more equitable scholarly landscape.

How has your project changed? We refocused on the importance of the evaluation history of preprints.