Campaign creator/s: Gavin Taylor
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Rationale: Open peer review is a principle of open science, although it seems to have received less attention than open-source/data/access. There are now a variety of publishers of both generalist and specialist journals that either use or are trialling open peer review and problematic reviewing of COVID related research (see here) has recently highlighted the limitations of the traditional and closed peer-reviewing format (particularly if it is rushed). This seems like a good time to draw more attention to open peer review.
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Action: Only publish in and review for journals that use an open peer-review process. (This could be also split into two campaigns, one for reviewing and one for publishing.)
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Eligibility criteria: Ideally none.
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Optional anonymity: Yes
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Threshold: 1000(?).
Campaign creator/s: Gavin Taylor
Rationale: Open peer review is a principle of open science, although it seems to have received less attention than open-source/data/access. There are now a variety of publishers of both generalist and specialist journals that either use or are trialling open peer review and problematic reviewing of COVID related research (see here) has recently highlighted the limitations of the traditional and closed peer-reviewing format (particularly if it is rushed). This seems like a good time to draw more attention to open peer review.
Action: Only publish in and review for journals that use an open peer-review process. (This could be also split into two campaigns, one for reviewing and one for publishing.)
Eligibility criteria: Ideally none.
Optional anonymity: Yes
Threshold: 1000(?).