Sciety product news 03/09/2024

The latest in preprint innovations from sciety.org, the home of public preprint evaluation.

🚀 What's new?

It's been a little while since our last update where we announced subject categories on Sciety. During this time we've had a team onsite in Cambridge, UK where we discussed near term strategy and we've been continuing work to evolve our model of preprint evaluation to accommodate preprint initiatives such as Access Microbiology.

• Our staging site now contains an up to date feed of all Access Microbiology evaluated papers and we are preparing to move this to production.
• We are currently in discovery mode looking at implementing the COAR notify protocol which will send and receive notifications of peer evaluation. This work delivers on aims to increase the visibility of review activity and the speed in which evaluation activity is known about. Initially, this work will set up connections between
  • Sciety > Kotahi - to be able to notify review authors and group admins that a review has been indexed by Sciety.
  • PCI > Sciety - be be notified when new evaluations are published by PCIs
  • PREreview <> Sciety - to enable two way communication notifying Sciety of PREreview activity and notifying PREreview that reviews have been indexed.
• Our Marketing team have created a new guide to talking about Sciety. It's intended as set of talking points for internal use, but in the spirit of open we have added this to our resources page.

🔭 What's next?

Sciety's vision has always been to provide a tool that lets groups of researchers discover and organise preprints and their evaluation activity. With the surge in preprint activity within biomedical sciences in 2020, it was important to surface ways to help researchers navigate the fire hose of research to know where to place their valuable time.

Since that initial vision, Sciety has grown into a vital part of scholarly infrastructure, defining the activity of public preprint evaluation. We do this through:

1. Structured, transparent evaluations through DocMaps. These are utilised by EuropePMC and BioRxiv to power the filtering of peer evaluated preprints.
2. Publicly accessible APIs for discovering evaluated preprints
3. A flexible platform (sciety.org) showcasing new (Publish, Review Curate) models of author-centric community public peer evaluation

By shifting our focus towards investing in this infrastructure, we can ensure a future where preprint peer evaluation continues to be recognised and rewarded as crucial researcher activity.

💡 Let us know what you think

We want to build Sciety with you and we welcome all feedback and ideas. Book a 1:1 call with the team to learn more about our latest changes and help us plan the for the future for equitable, open research outputs.

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