Plaudit

mdelhaye's bookmarks 2018-11-01

Summary:

Plaudit was conceived of at the eLife Innovation Sprint 2018, ran in conjunction with the Mozilla Global Sprint 2018. During this sprint, the team set out to tackle a complex problem: Can we find a way to recognise the value of scientific content, independent of the journal in which it’s published? Solving this problem can help addressing the obsession with publication in "prestigious" journals, and hence stimulate researchers to make their work widely available through platforms like preprint servers and other rapid publication and sharing services. The solution the team came up with was Plaudit: a simple mechanism for researchers to endorse valuable scientific work. Not only was this idea realistic in scope, it also nicely aligned incentives: Research consumers can use endorsements from trusted members of the academic community to show them what research is reliable, interesting and relevant. Authors benefit from the credibility endorsements provide their work with. Preprint servers gain an independent stamp of crededibility for work they host that deserves it. Endorsers can indicate which research is useful to them, and can boost their image of being able to recognise valuable scientific work, much like sitting on an editorial board can. And perhaps most importantly: it fits in with the wider mission of increasing Open Access to publicly funded research.

Link:

https://plaudit.pub/about

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Tags:

oa.new oa.assessment oa.preprints oa.tools oa.versions

Date tagged:

11/01/2018, 10:45

Date published:

11/01/2018, 06:45