SpotOn, the popular conference series looking at science policy, outreach and tools will be held at the Wellcome Collection in London on November 5, 2016. SpotOn 2016 will focus on what peer review might look like in 2030 and will be led by BioMed Central, Digital Science and Wellcome.
The conference will be a dynamic, highly interactive meeting of researchers, science communicators, technologists, and those interested in science policy. The conference will explore all angles of peer review, with the programme designed with the help of the research community.
Discussions may include can technology make peer review faster, easier, more transparent? Or will the rush to share data overshadow quality and confidence in scientific literature? How might peer review be extended to research data, software and blog posts? Will pre-print servers, post-publication article metrics, and research sharing platforms force a complete overhaul of the peer review process? Will peer review continue to be the best defence against bad science, or will advances in AI mean that the not so distant future is entirely peer-less?
Interested parties may visit http://events.biomedcentral.com/spoton/ or follow @SpotOnLondon #SpotOn16 for more information or to get involved.
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