eLife and PREreview are working with AfricArXiv, Eider Africa and the Training Centre in Communication (TCC Africa) on a new peer-review training programme for early to mid-career researchers in Africa. The course aims to raise awareness around preprints and foster the participation of African researchers in peer review, especially the open review of preprints.
The project follows the announcement from eLife and PREreview earlier this year that they had partnered in their common commitment to bring greater diversity to the peer-review process.
PREreview had previously joined forces with AfricArXiv, Eider Africa and TCC Africa to bring together researchers from Africa and scholars engaged with Africa-related research in a series of collaborative preprint journal clubs, a project supported by a ‘Research Enrichment – Diversity and Inclusion’ grant from Wellcome. During the project, the interest among African scholars to learn more about preprints and preprint review was expressed. Now, under a new Wellcome grant, and in partnership with eLife, PREreview is continuing the collaboration with Eider Africa, TCC Africa and AfricArXIv to deliver the workshop series on open review.
For the workshop, researchers will be invited to join a path of guided learning to build their profile as constructive peer reviewers. To ensure the scalability and maximize the impact of the course, the organizers will introduce a ‘train the trainer’ model, where the first cohort of researchers will be recruited to the workshop and given the opportunity to learn how to instruct others in peer review. The participants will also be invited to help co-create the training materials, adapt these resources to their needs and contexts, and deliver the workshop to their own research communities.
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