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Peer Review Week 2021: Preprints Meet Open Peer Review

Scott Edmunds - September 24, 2021

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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New beginnings during a pandemic – the COVID year in review

Hans Zauner - December 17, 2020

Looking back at this unusual year, we are happy to report that GigaScience not only kept going under difficult circumstances, publishing outstanding examples of Big Data science and introducing innovations in the review process. We also opened a new chapter with the launch of a sister journal, GigaByte .

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Preprint.Space, The Final Frontier

Scott Edmunds - May 24, 2018

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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#PeerRevWk17 Update: Peer Review Week goes Transparent and Interactive

Scott Edmunds - 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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#peerrevwk15 News: Crediting our Amazing Reviewers with DOIs

Scott Edmunds - October 1, 2015

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

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Continuing the push beyond static documents. ISMB, and more on our “What Bioinformaticians need to know about digital publishing beyond the PDF2” workshop

Scott Edmunds - July 31, 2014

Write-up on ISMB2014 in Boston and more on our “What Bioinformaticians need to know about the digital publishing beyond the PDF2” workshop we organised there

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GigaScience – making open peer review more open: Q&A with Publons co-founder, Andrew Preston

Nicole Nogoy - July 3, 2014

At GigaScience, one of our major goals is to improve transparency and reproducibility of research and one of the ways we do this is through open peer review. After the unusual “meta peer review” of our Assemblathon2 paper (see more in biome), we thought our peer review couldn’t get more open, but a small New […]

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