Peer Review Week

 

















Peer Review Week is an annual global event celebrating the critical role of peer review in maintaining the quality and integrity of research communication. The theme for Peer Review Week 2017 is 'Transparency'.

Check out the official Peer Review Week webpage for informative posts and webinars (online presentations).


Additional resources:

• Publons - get recognition for doing peer reviews, or if you are an early career researcher and would like to learn how to do a good review, attend Publon Academy
• Open Peer Review (OPR) - learn more about this Open Science movement
• F1000 Research -  A good example of a publishing platform with open peer review practices

Science: Promoting an Open Research Culture

An article published today in the journal Science, Promoting an Open Research Culture, spells out some guidelines for publishing scientific studies. They aim to bring more transparency, openness and reproducibility to the results of scientific research.

Written in part by Dr. Marcia McNutt, editor in chief of Science as well as thirty other scientists, the guidelines come out of the Transparency and Openness Promotion (TOP) Committee that met late in 2014.

The article goes on to say that the academic promotion system does not reward open practices and that collective action is needed across scientific disciplines to make changes.

See the TOP guidelines and standards here.

Open Science article in NYT

From the Science section of the New York Times: "Cracking Open the Scientific Process". This article takes a look at how research is currently done and proposes some new models of making the process and results more open. Mentioned in the article is the book, "Reinventing Discovery: The New Era of Networked Science" by Michael Nielsen, which can be checked out from the TSRI Library.