How to facilitate meaningful scholarly dialogue is a key challenge for the scientific publishing system going forward. Addressing this challenge needs to be accompanied by assessment reform, moving away from current practice of giving special status to peer-reviewed outputs relative to other work.
After years of producing open-source software at eLife for our own publishing efforts and for use by the community, we've decided to showcase it all and talk more about opportunities to help in building open technology for open science, with a new website: elifetechnology.org
Preprint peer evaluation already happens here. In posts and in replies.
But it’s disconnected from the scholarly record and how science gets credited.
With support from NLnet, Sciety is working to recognise the crucial act of community curation
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Timely piece on bibliographic databases hindering publishing innovation. These databases have evolved into the defacto arbiters for evaluation and discovery and IMO have a duty to work with new publishing models and context that helps readers consume content upstream.force11.org/criteria-for...
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We opted for Google Home early on because I'd already given them enough of my data by using their ecosystem for mobile, photos, calendar and email that I thought I should get something in return.
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We're excited to share that evaluations from MetaROR, the free, open peer review platform for metaresearch by @rorinstitute.bsky.social & @aimosinc.bsky.social are now available on Sciety 🎉
👉 Follow MetaROR on Sciety to keep up-to-date with all new evaluation activity
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