Pre-prints and journal clubs: empowering the next generation of peer reviewers

Discover PREreview, an open platform that facilitates the collaborative writing of preprints reviews by a growing community of contributors.

Everyone welcome, whether early career researcher or not, from the Life Sciences or from any other discipline!

The presentation will be followed by drinks!

Register here!

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Because of its fundamental role in research evaluation, scientific peer-review should be an important component in the training of early-career researchers. The vision behind PREreview is that there is a potential for every scientist to post, read, and engage with preprints.

With the phenomenal growth in their adoption in the biological science, preprints evaluation in the open is likely to become standard practice of scholarly publishing in the future. In order to maximize the positive impact of such practice, it is important to help researchers see the benefits of sharing their work openly and exchanging feedback at a point in time when it’s most useful, and in a way that is constructive, inclusive, and rewarding to them.

Started in September 2017 by Daniela Saderi, Samantha Hindle, and Monica Granados, the PREreview project is funded by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation and the Wellcome Trust, as well as sponsored by the non-profit organization Code for Science and Society.

Through the lens of her personal experience, Daniela Saderi will share with the audience the principles that are driving this project forward, as well as the challenges that are often coupled with working  at the intersection of academia and a global movement promoting open scholarship.

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Speaker's bio
Daniela Saderi has recently defended a Ph.D. thesis in neuroscience at Oregon Health & Science University, USA. She previously earned a Master’s degree in Neuroscience from the University of Trieste/SISSA and a Bachelor’s degree in molecular biology from the University of Milan. She currently is a Mozilla Fellow for Science, working on the growth and sustainability of PREreview. As the co-founder of this project, she wants to promote open practices in academia, with the goal of improving reproducibility and collaboration. You can find Daniela on Twitter, LinkedIn and Github.