Newsletter July 12, 2024
IT’S A WRAP! And… IT’S A NEW LAUNCH!
SolvingFor is pleased to announce the successful conclusion of the Phase 1: Design of the Discovery Stack Pilot, which started in July of 2023. Exactly a year since our first Idea Engine meeting!
What a year it has been! A ginormous thank you to the DSDC team and everyone involved, past, present, (& future) for pushing the project to this phase!
Now Phase 2: The Discovery Stack Pilot is finally ready for you!
The Discovery Stack Pilot (DSP) is born of the necessity of changing the Scientific Peer Review & Publishing landscape to one that benefits scientists and sustains productive academic research. As a community, we realize that drastic changes are needed to make our academic research world more collaborative in discussions around publishing our findings, and we have come together to design a model in which a different peer review experience could exist.
The change is quite simple: to create a digital environment that facilitates the feeling of editing, commenting, and discussing a colleague’s manuscript directly. We call this process Peer Improvement.
A DSP introductory deck is included for details!
In brief:
- The task of the Reviewer is to provide a public service to your fellow scientists.
- First to the Authors of the work: to give them your best input in helping their science stay truthful while showcasing its value.
- Then to the scientific readership: to help fellow researchers find discoveries that could best facilitate their ongoing endeavors.
- The task of the Authors is to accept the Reviewer’s good faith feedback with openness and a willingness to improve.
- Consider the rewording of conclusions that are better supported by the data.
- Discuss a better alternative approach that could be implemented in follow up work.
- Endeavor to make your next study be of even better quality than the current.
We are now inviting YOU to join the effort, take part in testing the Model by Joining the Discovery Stack Pilot study!
For those who have already signed up, we Thank you for your patience and faith in us in having enrolled since this past winter or spring. Be on the lookout for official participant emails to come in August from discoverystack@solvingfor.org
If you know someone in your circle who is passionate about improving academic culture, please pass this newsletter along!
Thank you for reading. We look forward to working with you on this exciting project. Together, let’s make peer review & publishing what we all would wish it to be!
To read the full news post, visit the Solving For Science Newsfeed!
To learn more about the ethos, team, history, implementation, visit the Discovery Stack/Discovery Curator webpages!
Sincerely yours,
Caitlin & Brooke
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