Rethinking Peer Review: Will New Models Bring New Voices to the Scholarly Dialogue?

Throughout the history of scholarly communication, “peer reviewers” have typically been two or three academics selected by editors and dissemination has happened largely through scholarly journals. This session will discuss the ways in which this traditional model is being disrupted through initiatives such as public review and preprint workflows, such as eLife’s recent shift in their publishing model. New modes of peer review and publication seek to increase the number of individuals reviewing new research, diversify the reviewer pool, improve research quality and clarity, bring new voices to the peer review process, and ensure that research dissemination methodologies are fit for purpose in an increasingly digital, global ecosystem. This one-hour panel will consist of three presentations followed by an open discussion period.

SESSION 5

Publication Date

2023 | October

New Directions 2023 | Navigating the Shifting Sands

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We are living through a time of accelerating change and transformation, where the landscape of scholarly publishing is undergoing tectonic shifts in how we operate, how we communicate, and where we add value to the research and learning lifecycles. Like all organizations dedicated to the business of information and data, content and service providers in our industry are experiencing challenges brought on by open access mandates, ongoing institutional budget crises, technological revolutions, and more. The 2023 New Directions Seminar will focus on how those working in scholarly communications manage commercial and cultural disruptions. Where are the sands shifting most dramatically? How are content and service providers responding to these disruptions? What are the priorities and what is being left behind? What tools and methods do we need to successfully weather these disruptive changes? Framework Viewed through the lens of a typical research workflow, we can observe disruptions and systemic changes underway at every step along the journey. The 2023 New Directions seminar will be designed to address where and how the “sands” are shifting at each junction of the scholarly communications lifecycle. Sessions will address topics from how changing funder mandates and AI tools are impacting researcher practices to open peer review, data sharing, and more. We hope to close the session with a change management workshop-style session designed to support resiliency in publishing professionals.

Alessio Bolognesi

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Head of Journal Development, eLife

Alessio joined eLife in January 2023 and is currently Head of Journal Development. He studied biology in Rome (Italy), followed by a PhD in cell biology in 2017 at the ETH Zurich (Switzerland). Before eLife, Alessio worked as scientific editor at Cell Press (Elsevier) for a little over 4 years.

Elizabeth Marincola

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Senior Advisor, Science for Africa Foundation

Elizabeth Marincola is Senior Advisor for Science Communications and Advocacy at the Science for Africa Foundation, which drives scientific research across Africa. Marincola is an international leader in non-profit management, open access publishing, science advocacy, communications, education and public engagement. She was CEO of the open access publisher PLOS, after serving as a long time PLOS board member. She launched AAS Open Research, an innovative scholarly publication. Marincola was President of the Society for Science & the Public, Publisher of Science News magazine, and Executive Director of the American Society for Cell Biology and the Coalition for Life Sciences. She served on the founding boards of PubMed Central and eLife, and on numerous US and EU advisory commissions on open science. She is currently on the board of the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health Center for Humanitarian Health. She received her bachelors and MBA degrees from Stanford.

Janaynne do Amaral

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