Microbiology Society open research platform webinar now online

29 April 2021

The Microbiology Society will launch a new open research platform in October 2021. A webinar is now available showing how the platform will incorporate many of the elements of a preprint server with our current sound science journal, Access Microbiology, in an effort to improve the rigor, reproducibility and transparency of the academic record.

The platform will feature artificial intelligence (AI) review tools to help authors improve their work, and include posting all article versions, AI review reports, reviewer reports, Editor comments and author responses, to ensure a fully transparent peer review process. View the webinar that took place today at the Microbiology Society Annual Conference 2021 describing the project and how the preprint and peer review process will work.

The development of the platform is funded by a grant awarded by the Wellcome Trust and the Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) as part of their Learned Society Curation Awards.

For further information about the project please contact Alex Howat at [email protected].