Agenda

Workshop on Transparency in Standards and Practices of Peer Review

Made possible with the generous support of The Open Society Foundations

January 23 & 24, 2018  •  Cambridge, Massachusetts

Agenda

Tuesday January 23

MIT Media Lab, Cambridge, Massachusetts

5:00 p.m. Opening reception

5:30 Welcoming Remarks, Amy Brand

5:40 5-minute lightning talks, appetizers

• Mark Edington, Amherst College Press and Lever Press

• Tony Ross-Hellauer, Open Science, Know-Center

• Jeffrey Spies, Center for Open Science

• Andy Collings, eLife

• Kristen Ratan, Collaborative Knowledge Foundation

6:30 Dinner, open conversation

8:00 Announcements, housekeeping for the following day

8:15 Hotel shuttle departs

Wednesday, January 24

The Norton’s Woods Conference Center, American Academy of Arts and  Sciences, Cambridge, Massachusetts

8:00 am Shuttles leave hotel

8:15 Continental breakfast at the Academy

9:00 Morning Session I: A brief history of peer review (Aileen Fyfe, University of St. Andrews)

9:30 Review and discussion of pre-workshop survey results  (Amy Brand and Mark Edington)

10:00  Break

10:15 Morning Session II: Moderated discussions on key topics (30 minutes each)

• Flavors of open (Jason Mittell)

• Peer review of data and experimental protocols (Alexa McCray)

• Peer review of pre-prints (Ross Mounce)

• Multi-stage, sequenced/simultaneous review (Mark Edington)

12:15 pm Lunch & continued discussion, followed by email break

1:30 Afternoon Session I: Moderated discussions on challenges in operationalizing transparency (30 minutes each)

• Capturing who does peer review (Micah Altman)

• Capturing intentionality or function of review (Danny Kingsley)

• The bad actor problem (John Randell)

• Metadata and discoverability (Jennifer Lin)

3:30 Coffee/bio  break

3:45 Afternoon Session II: Design brainstorm — what should peer review signals/marks look like?

4:15 Brainstorming with rapporteur (Patsy Baudoin)

What will the meeting report cover?

4:45 Group discussion on next steps

5:00 Adjourn