Updating and automating the covidpreprints.com website during the eLife Sprint 2020
By Zhang-He Goh, Jonny Coates, Hugo Gruson Cross-posted with rOpenSci At the eLife Sprint in September 2020, we revamped the covidpreprints.com website, which aims at featuring landmark preprints on a timeline of the pandemic. The birth of the project The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic has led to about 35 million…
| Posted on | 13 October 2020 |
preLights is participating in the #PreprintReviewChallenge
On 22 September preLights will be joining ASAPbio for the #PreprintReviewChallenge as part of Peer Review Week 2020. In a live session hosted online, we will get together to write constructive comments and reviews on preprints, with the aim to develop the largest collection of public commentary on preprinted research…
| Posted on | 24 August 2020 |
preLights webinar with Jessica Polka: Commenting on preprints
We recently started an internal webinar series for the preLights community to discuss topics such as effective scientific writing, new developments in preprints, innovations in publishing and peer review, or science outreach. For our second webinar we were honoured to have Jessica Polka, Executive Director of ASAPbio, join us as…
| Posted on | 21 May 2020 |
preLights featured on Nature Index
We are thrilled that Nature Index has highlighted preLights in a new post that discusses platforms that review and curate preprints. With a special emphasis on the surge in COVID-19 preprints, the article also features the covidpreprints.com website and quotes from Jonny Coates, the preLighter who built the website, and…
| Posted on | 20 May 2020 |
Project by preLighters selected for the eLife Sprint
We are delighted that the covidpreprints.com project was selected for the 2020 eLife Innovation Sprint. The team at the Sprint, which will be lead by Gautam Dey, Jonny Coates and Zhang-He Goh, is looking for the help of software developers and data scientists to give advice on how to efficiently…
| Posted on | 28 April 2020 |
The preLights community build a new website for landmark coronavirus preprints
Over the course of three months, more than a thousand coronavirus preprints have been posted. A group of preLighters has now created the website covidpreprints.com to feature landmark studies and place them on a timeline of the pandemic. In the ongoing coronavirus pandemic, with currently over one million confirmed cases…
| Posted on | 3 April 2020 |