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Review Commons webinar: Journal-independent Peer Review in the Life Sciences

Review Commons webinar: Journal-independent Peer Review in the Life Sciences

Tuesday, September 8, 2020 

12pm New York | 9am San Francisco | 5pm London | 6pm Berlin | 9:30pm Mumbai

About half of biomedical articles are submitted to more than one journal, leading to repeated peer review and publication delays. Review Commons is a free, journal-independent peer review service that allows you to transfer your manuscript and its reviews to one of 17 participating journals for consideration, and to post your refereed preprint to bioRxiv. This experiment in scientific publishing brings a fresh perspective to communicating peer-reviewed research to the scientific community. Over the last few months, 15 Review Commons papers have been published in various journals, including elife and MBoC as well as PLOS, EMBO, and Company of Biologists titles, with many more in the pipeline. During this event, you will learn about how Review Commons works and participate in a lively discussion about this platform. Topics will include:

  • The need for journal-independent peer review
  • Inner workings of publishing via Review Commons
  • Perspectives from authors, reviewers, and editors from affiliated journals
  • Statistics about the service
  • Open Q & A with panelists

Schedule

  • Why Review Commons: Ron Vale (HHMI)/Maria Leptin (EMBO)
  • The mechanics of Review Commons: Thomas Lemberger/Sara Monaco (EMBO)
  • Evaluating Review Commons: Thomas Lemberger/Sara Monaco (EMBO)
  • Panel: Author, Reviewer, and Affiliate Editor perspectives: Gira Bhabha (NYU), Rita Tewari (U of Nottingham), & Maureen Murphy (Wistar Institute)
  • Open discussion

Registration is free but required!

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