Behind the headlines are exciting initiatives that have the potential to, not just improve peer review, but optimise it for 21st century scholarship, says Eric Hall, director of business development for PRE (peer review evaluation) at Striatus. He mentioned PEERE as an example of innovative Action: “In 2014, COST (the intergovernmental framework for cooperation in science and technology in Europe) formed a group representing the first government-funded, multi-national effort to ‘improve the…
PRE-val verifies for the end user that content has gone through the peer review process and provides information that is vital to assessing the quality of that process. It is the flagship service of PRE (Peer Review Evaluation), which is a non-profit organisation based in Boston (MA) that provides services designed to support and strengthen the peer-review process – the cornerstone of scholarly communication.
Below is the programme of the PEERE meeting on “Data sharing in peer review”, Lisbon, 27-29 January 2015. Among the invited speakers: Matt Hodgkinson (PLoS ONE), Rebecca Lawrence (F1000), Carole J. Lee (University of Washington at Seattle), and Misha Teplitskiy (University of Chicago). Stay tuned for materials!
Matt Hodginkson is Senior Editor at PLos ONE. He graduated in Biological Sciences from the University of Oxford, then obtained an MSc from Downing College, Cambridge, where he worked with David Lomas and David Gubb on a fruit fly model of antitrypsin deficiency and first became aware of the open access movement due to Michael Ashburner’s enthusiastic advocacy. He moved to London to join BioMed Central as an assistant editor with…
Rebecca Lawrence, Director of New Product Development at F1000, will give a talk on “Bringing transparency to peer review” at the PEERE Lisbon meeting on 27-29 January 2015. Before joining F1000, Rebecca has previously worked for other publishers including Elsevier for 7 years on the Drug Discovery Today group of products, and holds a degree in Pharmacy and a PhD in Pharmacology. She will be writing about issues related to…
Here is the Budapest meeting programme with practical information: BudapestPEEREProgramme. For any detail, please contact the organiser (Prof. Karoly Takacs, Takacs.Karoly@tk.mta.hu)
Carole J. Lee, philosopher at the University of Washington, Seattle, will talk on bias in peer review at the PEERE meeting in Lisbon, 27-29 January 2015. Take a look at her work on peer review at: http://faculty.washington.edu/c3/
