The path to reforming peer review begins with community, works through equity, and ends in trust
OASPA Conference
September 23, 2021
This presentation can be accessed
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Monica Granados, PhD
PREreview Leadership Team
Samantha Hindle, PhD
Co-Founder, PREreview Leadership Team
Antoinette Foster, PhD
Former Open Reviewers Program Manager
Katrina Murphy
Project Manager
THE PREREVIEW TEAM
Daniela Saderi, PhD (she/her)
Italian-born and raised, Neuroscientist, Mom
Co-Founder and Director, PREreview
Twitter: @Neurosarda, @PREreview_
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WHAT’S PREREVIEW?
OUR MISSION
A preprint review platform, resource center, and convener. We provide ways for feedback to preprints to be done openly, rapidly, constructively, and by a global community of peers.
To bring equity and transparency to scholarly peer review by supporting and empowering communities of researchers, particularly those at early stages of their career (ECRs) and historically excluded, to review preprints in a process that is rewarding to them.
WHAT DO WE NEED TO TRULY REFORM PEER REVIEW?
1
COMMUNITY
Community is somewhere members feel a sense of belonging, have a shared purpose, and get to shape culture together. –CSCCE Team
What are the needs, the pains & gains, the shared values of the people we are hoping to empower and engage in public preprint review?
WHO ARE WE REFORMING FOR?
Anonymous and Public Persona
PREREVIEW COMMUNITIES
Open Reviewers
Outbreak Science
RR:C19 Student Group
Plant Biologist ECRs
AfricArXiv Reviewers
Medical Students Reviewers
2
EQUITY
The degree to which scholars—meant in the broader sense—are free from historic and present-day barriers to full access and participation in research production, evaluation, and dissemination.
Patriarchy
White supremacy
Colonialism
Heteronormativity
A cohort-based training and mentoring program to train the next generation of socially-conscious peer reviewers.
OPEN REVIEWERS
CULTURE & PRACTICES
INCREASING ACCESS
SYSTEMS & STRUCTURES
*In progress
OPEN REVIEWERS TOOLKIT
Approaching partnership building from an opportunity perspective.
WHO ARE WE REFORMING FOR?
WITH
OPEN REVIEWERS
X
3
TRUST
The degree to which traditionally excluded scholars can rely on not being exploited, appropriated of their knowledge, tokenized, and instead can count on having their voice and needs centered, their contributions recognized and rewarded, their roles elevated to leadership.
Build it and they will come approach
WON’T WORK!
Our approach is imperfect and incomplete. And that is OK.
NO ONE KNOWS WHAT EQUITY LOOKS LIKE BECAUSE WE HAVE NEVER SEEN IT.
Allow for mistakes. Be open to feedback and change. Work together.
And always keep your eyes focused on EQUITY.
Advisory Committee
Samantha Hindle, Ph.D.
(Co-Founder, Leadership Team)
Monica Granados, Ph.D.
(Leadership Team)
Georgia Bullen
(Executive Director, Simply Secure)
Kristen Ratan
(Founder and Director, Stratos)
Lenny Teytelman, Ph.D.
(Co-Founder and CEO, protocols.io)
Sarah Greaves
(STM Publishing Consultant)
Former and current funders
Fiscal Sponsor
Contact
contact@prereview.org
@PREreview_
Staff
Katrina Murphy
(PREreview Project Manager)
Antoinette Foster, Ph.D.
(Former Open Reviewers Program Manager)