Grassroots Review Journals @GrassrootsReview@fediscience.org

#introduction

This is the account of the Grassroots Review Journal system. We will tweet about #PeerReview & (integrating) #OpenScience tools.

Grassroots Review Journals assess the quality of scientific articles & finished manuscripts. Because we only review, we are not limited by copy rights & people do not have to submit their articles to us for it to work.

We aim to be a valuable entry into the literature & to destroy the power of the publishers.

We need coders, editors & messengers.

From Reddit.

Letter by medical librarians making the case of segmented review of review papers where librarians would review the literature search strategies, which are often poorly designed or poorly reported.
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1936523321000528?via%3Dihub
https://www.reddit.com/r/GrassrootsJournals/comments/mh4ldb/letter_by_medical_librarians_making_the_case_of/?utm_source=ifttt

From Reddit.

A medical department started doing internal peer review before submitting papers to a journal. The review was similar to what a journal would do. This quickly spread to all departments and some affiliated institutions. Planned are a copy editor and a journal club.
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s40670-021-01251-9
https://www.reddit.com/r/GrassrootsJournals/comments/mgee1l/a_medical_department_started_doing_internal_peer/?utm_source=ifttt

From Reddit.

"Peer Review Week 2020: Insights into Building Trust in Peer Review". Authored by people from Asian Council of Science Editors and GlaxoSmithKline. An overview of the event and the "interesting" suggestion to have journals control preprinting.
http://docsdrive.com/pdfs/ansinet/pjbs/2020/1496-1499.pdf
https://www.reddit.com/r/GrassrootsJournals/comments/mfo0r7/peer_review_week_2020_insights_into_building/?utm_source=ifttt

From Reddit.

The $450 question: Should journals pay peer reviewers? Before the debate at a scholarly conference 41% favored paying peer reviewers, afterward 16%.
https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2021/03/450-question-should-journals-pay-peer-reviewers
https://www.reddit.com/r/GrassrootsJournals/comments/m3ivgy/the_450_question_should_journals_pay_peer/?utm_source=ifttt

From Reddit.

Join the LIBER Europe Working Group & Support Libraries in Innovative Peer Review.
https://libereurope.eu/article/join-our-working-group-support-libraries-in-innovative-peer-review/?mc_cid=337038d596&mc_eid=1bd8470e61
https://www.reddit.com/r/GrassrootsJournals/comments/lw1fm7/join_the_liber_europe_working_group_support/?utm_source=ifttt

From Reddit.

OPERAS has started a Certification Service for the peer review of Open Access books. Could this also be an idea to open the peer review black box for (Open Access) journals? That could end predatory journals.
https://doabooks.org/en/librarians/certification-service
https://www.reddit.com/r/GrassrootsJournals/comments/lszb39/operas_has_started_a_certification_service_for/?utm_source=ifttt

From Reddit.

Working Scientist podcast: How to bounce back from a bruising peer-review or paper rejection
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-00381-1
https://www.reddit.com/r/GrassrootsJournals/comments/ls65cx/working_scientist_podcast_how_to_bounce_back_from/?utm_source=ifttt

From Reddit.

Re-evaluation of solutions to the problem of unprofessionalism in peer review. Analysis of the social media response to an article on unprofessional review reports. In which Facebook is again way more toxic than Twitter and Reddit.
https://researchintegrityjournal.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s41073-020-00107-x
https://www.reddit.com/r/GrassrootsJournals/comments/lre7nq/reevaluation_of_solutions_to_the_problem_of/?utm_source=ifttt

From Reddit.

"Citation of retracted publications: A challenging problem" Most citations to retracted articles were made before retraction. There are nearly no studies on how much these citing articles are impacted. Do we need a warning system for citing articles? #OpenCitations
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/08989621.2021.1886933?journalCode=gacr20
https://www.reddit.com/r/GrassrootsJournals/comments/ll3bq0/citation_of_retracted_publications_a_challenging/?utm_source=ifttt

Why I chose a copyleft free license for the Grassroots Journals. The publishing industry will loose a few billions of the 10 billion a year they have in revenue.

Cory Doctorow: "a Ulysses Pact, named for the passage in the Odyssey in which Ulysses pilots his ship through the sirens' sea, ... protecting himself by lashing himself to the mast...

Tech was built on a Ulysses Pact: the irrevocable free software license: once a hacker applies the GPL, they can't unchoose it." https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/105736411221279740

From Reddit.

Publishing peer review materials. Technical article on how to represent the different versions and formats of peer review reports in the JATS and Crossref data models.
http://europepmc.org/article/MED/30416719
https://www.reddit.com/r/GrassrootsJournals/comments/ljoy5j/publishing_peer_review_materials_technical/?utm_source=ifttt

@VGM Nice to see an IP lawyer here.

The peer review reports of the Grassroots review system should be exchanged between servers, like Mastodon exchanges posts.

So censorious governments could set up servers that only contain the peer reviews that are politically inconvenient.

Is there a way to force such countries to distribute all peer review reports?

So that when the system succeeds they will have to choose between science and censorship.

From Reddit.

TIL: There is a Database with Librarians who are willing to do Peer Reviewer of Systematic Reviews. Many librarians are happy to help review how the literature search was made, but few editors ask librarians.
https://sites.google.com/view/mlprdatabase/home/about-this-site
https://www.reddit.com/r/GrassrootsJournals/comments/l6xafl/til_there_is_a_database_with_librarians_who_are/?utm_source=ifttt