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.