Preprints enable researchers to rapidly share their work publicly before the formal peer review process. This webinar will introduce preprints, demonstrate how to select and evaluate preprints by using tools developed by Europe PMC, and show you how to set up and run a preprint journal club based on the experience run by the Immunology departments at Mount Sinai-Oxford-Karolinska.

Europe PMC indexes preprints abstracts and full text COVID-19 preprints from 24 life science preprint servers. Preprints in Europe PMC are linked to data and platforms that comment or evaluate preprints. How to use the linked data and platforms to select and evaluate preprints will be addressed. We will also explore how to set up and run a preprint journal club and share useful tips so you can build your own preprint journal club. This can help you in building your critical thinking whilst promoting awareness of current research.

Who is this course for?

This webinar is suitable to any life science researchers who wish to learn more about how to select preprints to discuss in journal clubs. This will also help you evaluating papers in the literature. No prior knowledge is required.

Outcomes

By the end of the webinar you will be able to:

• Describe what a preprint is
• Apply Europe PMC tools to select and evaluate preprints
• Plan setting up a preprint journal club

DOI: 10.6019/TOL.PreprintsJournalClub-w.2022.00001.1

This webinar took place on 11th May 2022. Please click the 'Watch video' button to view the recording.