#PreprintSprint Final Presentations and Awards
Channel: ASAP bio
Date: 2020-12-09

00:00 Introductions from ASAPbio
03:29 TCC Africa - Building capacity for preprint-based peer review and curation in Africa
08:41 I Owe the Academy: Fixing the Market for Peer Review
11:37 Unfold Research
14:55 COAR- Piloting peer review overlay services
18:00 OxMS - Harnessing cross-institutional journal clubs to assess and review preprints
21:40 Displaying evaluation history of preprints
24:55 Take a penny; leave a penny
27:47 PREreview - Transforming peer review through mentorship and community engagement
31:02 Early Evidence Base
35:50 Biomed News
39:17 Peeriodicals
42:25 COVID-19 Rapid Review
45:49 Stencila - Encouraging preprint review
48:58 CrowdPeer
52:25 Putting peers at the hear of peer review
57:54 2019 Novel Coronavirus Research Compendium (NCRC)
1:01:51 Preprint review and curation by content type
1:05:04 Award ceremony

Community feedback on preprints makes rapid science more robust. Review and commentary can help authors improve their articles; curation can provide readers with helpful context and enhance discoverability. But despite the benefits, barriers to reviewing and curating preprints remain. Potential reviewers and curators see few incentives to organize and comment on preprints, and reviews can be difficult to find, both at the level of an individual preprint and across the ecosystem. 

How do we encourage existing peer reviewers and the broader community to participate in review and curation? How do we promote review of work beyond well-known authors and institutions? How do we convince the community to devote more of their effort towards preprint review? How do we reward evaluation of preprints?

Such questions have become even more urgent as the use of preprints grows exponentially amid the COVID-19 crisis. During this critical moment, we want to encourage thoughtful community engagement with preprints, including review and curation. 

To increase exposure for new and existing ideas for encouraging preprint curation and review, we’re holding an online design sprint in collaboration with Wellcome, the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, DORA, EMBO Press, PLOS, and eLife. 

At the December 3 presentations, participants provided updates on their accomplishments during the Sprint, and judges awarded recognition for outstanding projects.