Following on from the recent webinar entitled Scholarly Communication & COVID-19: Closing the Loop for Effective Peer Review, we asked our speakers to summarise their talks by offering a few key takeaways, which you can find below. We also asked speakers to respond to the many questions that were posed by attendees via the webinar… Read full article >
Q&A from OASPA and eLife: Early-career researcher involvement and recognition in peer review
In our second Q&A article to mark Peer Review Week 2016, we asked some early-career researchers about their involvement in peer review and how they feel they are recognised for their work. These responses have been provided by Sonia Sen (SS), a member of eLife’s Early Career Advisory Group and postdoctoral researcher for three years,… Read full article >
Q&A from OASPA and eLife: Recognition and innovation in peer review
In the first of two Q&A articles to mark Peer Review Week 2016, we at OASPA and eLife asked experienced reviewers and two early-career researchers for their views on recognition and innovation in peer review. The reviewers included Suzanne Pfeffer (SP), from eLife, and a contributor from Ubiquity Press (UP). Alecia Carter (AC) from eLife’s… Read full article >
OASPA’s second statement following the article in Science entitled “Who’s Afraid of Peer Review?”
Since OASPA released its first response to the Science ‘Sting’ article published in October, the OASPA Board has been looking at the implications of the findings for the organisation and its members. There has also been much discussion of the Science article, exploring the strengths and weaknesses of the exercise and associated data, along with… Read full article >
OASPA’s response to the recent article in Science entitled “Who’s Afraid of Peer Review?”
Below is a statement from the Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association (OASPA) in response to the recent “sting” that was reported in Science in an article entitled “Who’s Afraid of Peer Review?” OASPA was established in 2008 to bring together a growing community of high-quality publishers, who were showing how research could be published according… Read full article >