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GigaByte Author Wins A Ben Barres Spotlight Award for Publicly Reviewed Preprints

- July 8, 2024

Ben Barres Award logo

GigaScience Press would like to congratulate Victoire Nsabatien for winning a 2024 Ben Barres Spotlight Award for his two preprints publicly reviewed and published by GigaByte. Prizes are a good way of positively reinforcing and incentivizing good practice in opening up science, and eLife should be commended creating the Ben Barres Spotlight Award for groups […]

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Peer Review Week 2023: GigaByte joins the ‘Publish, Review, Curate’ Revolution using Sciety

- September 27, 2023

Peer Review Week 2023 announcement

Thanks to a collaboration with Sciety and eLife, this Peer Review Week 2023 we can announce new ‘Publish, Review, Curate’ models of peer-review are being showcased by GigaByte.

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Peer Review Week 2021: Preprints Meet Open Peer Review

- September 24, 2021

Identity in Peer Review

Identity in Peer Review is the theme of Peer Review Week 2021, and GigaScience Press have a number of new collaborations and integrations embracing this.

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GigaScience joins C19RapidReview: the COVID-19 Rapid Review Initiative

- May 29, 2020

C19 Rapid Review

C19RapidReview: cross publisher collaboration against the coronavirus pandemic The COVID-19 pandemic has created a new urgency to openly and rapidly share and review relevant research, with the world looking to science to solve the problems we currently face. While we’ve written about constructive things you can do while in lockdown, there are many more things […]

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Preprint.Space, The Final Frontier

- May 24, 2018

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Open Science Trek, The Next Integration Fostering and promoting more open and transparent science is one of the goals of GigaScience, and to do this we have been big promoters of open peer review as well as preprints servers. Combining both of these, Academic Karma was the one of the first platforms to focus on […]

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And the winner is? Our #ICG12 prize track on GigaTV

- November 27, 2017

Last month was the 7th consecutive year we’ve attended our co-publisher BGI’s annual ICG (International Conference on Genomics) gathering in Shenzhen. While we’ve assisted in organising a number of fun thematic tracks over the years including ICG-8’s crowdsourcing, crowdfunding and open science session, and ICG-10’s community genomics session, for ICG12 this year we decided to […]

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#PeerRevWk17 Update: Peer Review Week goes Transparent and Interactive

- September 19, 2017

On the first day of Peer Review Week 2017 we co-hosted a webinar discussing preprints and open peer Review with our friends at AcademicKarma.

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Enter the GigaScience Prize Track at ICG-12

- May 29, 2017

Call for Submissions for the GigaScience Prize Track, where you can win prizes and flights to join us in Shenzhen for BGI’s ICG-12 conference.

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ShoRtcut from bioRxiv to GigaScience

- March 23, 2017

Authors can now submit their bioRxiv preprints directly to GigaScience via the biorXiv b2j “bioRxiv to journal” platform, at the push of a button

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#peerrevwk15 News: Crediting our Amazing Reviewers with DOIs

- October 1, 2015

For Peer Review Week 2015 #peerrevwk15 we have an announcement on crediting our Amazing Reviewers with DOIs

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