What is preprint review and why does it matter?
And why and how should you become involved?
As Iratxe Puebla from ASAPbio and I explain in our new video, preprint review provides an opportunity for readers to interact with and evaluate preprints, at the point at which this work is first shared.
Why should you care about preprint review?
Well, preprint reviews provide valuable context for the public as well as for specialist readers: they highlight a preprint’s strengths and limitations, and can raise questions for authors to consider. Preprint review allows more researchers to participate in the evaluation of scholarly work, compared to journal review, including those from under-represented communities. And preprint review can benefit individual researchers as well: community feedback in the form of preprint review can help authors to refine their work prior to its submission to a journal. And if you are a reviewer of a preprint, you are developing key skills in the critical evaluation of other researchers' work.
But we recognise that preprint review is happening in a fast evolving landscape. It takes place in different places and can involve different models of peer review. To help you to navigate this fast evolving landscape and to support you in your first steps in participating in preprint review, we have created a video that covers what preprint review is and its benefits, the platforms available for preprint review, good practices in preprint review and ways in which individual researchers can participate in preprint review and benefit by doing so.
Whether you’re an early career researcher interested in participating in peer review, a trainer looking for up to date resources on preprint review, or a funder or researcher seeking new resources to encourage collaborators or trainees to engage with preprint review, then this video is for you.
Please watch our video, share it and link to it from your organisation’s website.
Jane Alfred
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Produced in partnership with Iratxe Puebla, Director of Strategic Initiatives & Community for ASAPbio.