Peer Review Week 2021

Our contribution will focus on bringing in the perspective of how extensive this can be, what is achievable and the possibility to harness community effort through new technology.

3 years ago   •   2 min read

By The Sciety Team
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This year's Peer Review Week starts today. And we are taking part in three events to discuss all things peer review with a focus on the potential for open review. Our contribution will focus on bringing in the perspective of how extensive this can be, what is achievable and the possibility to harness community effort through new technology.

Below are the events that we will be taking part in. At these events, you will have the chance to ask questions of us as well as the other participants.

Thursday 23 September - 09:00 hours (GMT)

The future of preprint peer review (Organised by EuropePMC)

This webinar will look at the current state of preprint peer review and its future. Our Head of Technology, Paul Shannon will represent Sciety. Paul will highlight some of the foundation work we have done and the direction of travel for Sciety. He will focus on the potential for crowd-sourced evaluation and curation to organise the preprint literature and shine a light on underrepresented work. He’ll talk about how Sciety brings peer review, highlights, automated screening and recommendation of preprints together from 16 diverse groups of scientists while allowing individuals to curate and share lists of preprints to help others navigate the preprint landscape. Register here

Thursday 23 September - 12:00 hours (GMT)

OASPA Poster Lightning Talks Session 3

This event is part of the OASPA 2021 Online Conference on Open Access Scholarly Publishing. We will be presenting in the Lighting Talks Session between 12:00 and 13:00 hours (GMT). Here, Hannah Drury, our Product Manager will be taking attendees through a quick introduction to Sciety. Programme for this event is here: https://oaspa.org/oaspa-2021-conference-program/

Friday, September 24th - 15:00 hours (GMT)

The Whys and Hows of Open Peer Review (organised by Science Open)

This panel discussion event is hosted by Science Open and “brings together all those committed to sharing the central message that quality peer review, whatever shape or form it might take, is critical to scholarly research.” Our Product Manager, Hannah Drury will be joining the panel to give an insight into the whys and hows of Sciety. This is a free online event. Register here

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