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Transforming Scholarly Publishing: A Community-Led Approach to Peer Review with PREreview

Talk by Vanessa Fairhurst, Head of Community at PREreview, at the FORCE11 conference which took place in-person at the UCLA campus, Los Angeles, California on Thursday 1st August 2024. Abstract: At PREreview, we are dedicated to fostering a more equitable, transparent, and accessible scholarly ecosystem. Our work is a direct response to the flawed way scientific research is evaluated. Behind closed doors, a handful of unpaid reviewers—selected opaquely and mainly through personal connections—use subjective criteria to decide the fate of a research article. Reviewers often undergo minimal training for this crucial task and have a lack of awareness of how to address issues of bias and systemic oppression, leading to a perpetuation of current inequities within scholarly publishing. In this talk, we'll explore PREreview's community-driven approach to transform peer review, rooted in values of accessibility, connectivity, self-awareness, and measurable impact, highlighting key features of our community-informed open preprint review platform, alongside our training programs aimed at fostering fair, constructive feedback while addressing systemic biases. You’ll hear case studies of the impact of creating a more open, equitable, and community-driven scholarly evaluation ecosystem from some of our global community members, as well as learn about key opportunities to join us in revolutionizing the peer-review process.