We concluded the event by discussing the use of preprints in journal clubs. I have recently co-launched a platform to help researchers start their own preprint journal clubs, and to provide resources to write a preprint review (PREreview). We hope that by discussing preprints in journal clubs, and posting your reviews online:
- this will help to show the scientific community that preprints are valuable and high quality research outputs and that there are benefits to posting preprints (early feedback),
- early career researchers can gain skills in peer review
- early career researchers can get acknowledgment/credit for their contributions to peer review
We have lots of resources freely available at
www.PREreview.org and, thanks to Mozilla Science Lab and the Sloan Foundation, we have funds for beta testers to buy snacks for their preprint journal clubs in return for feedback on our resources/platform. If you are interested in becoming one of our beta testers and/or you have any questions about preprint journal clubs, email us at
preprintjc@gmail.com Thanks!