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Peeriodicals

Organizer

The PubPeer Foundation, represented by Brandon Stell and Boris Barbour

Website or social media links

 https://peeriodicals.com

@peeriodicals

Current stage of development

Ongoing project

Project duration

Indefinite

Update

How has your project changed?

No changes.

Have you integrated any feedback received?

We received a useful suggestion to provide case studies for specific Peeriodicals applications to reduce any confusion arising from the flexibility of the platform. However, this has not yet been implemented.

Have you started any collaborations?

We made contact with the Novel Coronavirus Research Consortium to see if Peeriodicals (or the backing PubPeer database) could help disseminate the NCRC reviews; this is under discussion. The BIMS project have made contact about a possible collaboration and a discussion is being set up.

Project aims

Background information on current practices

There is widespread agreement that fashions imposed by the publishing industry have diverged from well established criteria of scientific quality. Peeriodicals offers a flexible platform for individual (or groups of) scientists to experiment with different forms of overlay or virtual journals, aiming to supplement if not replace the traditional journal functions of discovery and evaluation; in peeriodicals any publication (preprint or traditional article, new or old) can be showcased and analysed. An excellent example of an individual peeriodical is https://peeriodicals.com/peeriodicals/theoretical-neuroscience

Overview of the challenge to overcome

The technology exists, but uptake is slow. Significant barriers appear to include building up an audience for a peeriodical and the effort required to provide or procure useful analysis. The same barriers are likely to apply to other existing and future initiatives.

The ideal outcome or output of the project

Increased uptake and experimentation with the platform by scientists, both as producers and consumers of analysis.

Description of the intervention

Publicity for the platform. Support from the scientific establishment would encourage participation from the research community.

Plan for monitoring project outcome

Publicity for the platform. Support from the scientific establishment would encourage participation from the research community.

What’s needed for success

Additional technology development

None.

Feedback, beta testing, collaboration, endorsement

All of the above would be welcomed.

Funding

None requested.

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