Resources

For Authors

A preliminary list of society journals grouped by publisher, to help you find journals that match your values so you can support them with manuscript submissions.
It can be difficult to know how to effect change in the publishing ecosystem without disadvantaging yourself. Here are a few ideas …
More coming soon!

For Editors

A preliminary list of society journals grouped by publisher, to help you match your editorial service with journals that share your values.
Please consider adopting the Joint Statement by Editors on Principles for #BetterPublishing in recognition of your ability to facilitate positive change in the scientific publishing ecosystem.
To help grow an informed community of reviewers and editors, we have developed two workshops that can be offered online or in-person at conferences. See “For Workshops” below.
More coming soon!

For Reviewers

Fed up doing free service for journals owned by for-profit publishers? Here’s a preliminary list of society journals grouped by publisher, to help you decide how to give more back to the community than to business.
More coming soon!

For Societies

We encourage all scientific societies to adopt the Joint Statement on Scientific Publishing, or a variant thereof, and to implement the principles that reflect your ability to change scientific publishing for the better.
To help your membership grow into an informed community of reviewers and editors for your society journals, we have developed two workshops that can be offered online or in-person at conferences. See “For Workshops” below.
More coming soon!

For Journals

We encourage all editorial boards to adopt the Joint Statement by Editors on Principles for #BetterPublishing, or a variant thereof, and to implement the principles that recognize your ability to facilitate positive change in the scientific publishing ecosystem.
To help grow an informed community of reviewers and editors for your society-owned journals, we have developed two workshops that can be offered online or in-person at conferences. See “For Workshops” below.
More coming soon!

For Publishers

We encourage all Owners and Publishers of Scientific Journals to adopt PEEER’s Recommendations for #BetterPublishing, or a variant thereof, and to implement the principles that reflect your responsibility for fostering positive change in the scientific publishing ecosystem and the benefits a more sustainable system will bring.

For Workshops

We are developing a series of three workshops to (1) raise awareness of current challenges in the publishing ecosystem and (2) address those challenges by educating and training future authors, reviewers, and editors in society publishing.

The first two workshops target (i) early-stage early career researchers who are publishing their first few papers and are interested in learning more about the process and how to increase their success, and (ii) late-stage early career researchers who are have published multiple papers and are interested in learning about how to review better, become an associate editor, and align these service roles with their own careers. These two workshops may be offered online or in-person and are excellent precursors to scientific conferences. The workshop materials are provided here for re-use.

The third workshop, aimed at associate editors interested in learning more about the roles and responsibilities of senior editors is in development. We anticipate this will be offered online only, reflecting the challenges of regularly finding sufficient AEs at a single conference to warrant an in-person workshop.

Workshop 1: The publication process for new authors.

Powerpoint presentation, response collection spreadsheet, and PDF version of a post-workshop feedback form (link to a Google Form available on request):

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