Howat Alexandra M, Clark Justin
Microbiology Society, London, UK.
Access Microbiol. 2021 Sep 7;3(9):000272. doi: 10.1099/acmi.0.000272. eCollection 2021.
Following the Microbiology Society's successful bid for a Learned Society Curation Award from the Wellcome Trust and Howard Hughes Medical Institute, the Society is converting our sound science, open access journal, , to an open research platform. As part of this, we conducted a survey of our community to gauge current attitudes towards the platform and here we present some of these results. The majority of respondents (57 %) said they would always or sometimes want to remain anonymous on their peer review report, whilst 75 % of respondents said that as an author they would be happy to make the data underlying their research open. There was a clear desire for a range of research types that are often seen with sound science publications and rigorous research. An encouraging 94 % of respondents stated that the platform is somewhere they would consider publishing, demonstrating the enthusiasm in these respondents for a new publishing platform for their community. Given this data and that from our previous focus group research, the platform will launch as outlined in the original project proposal and adopt a transparent peer review model with an open data policy.
在微生物学会成功获得惠康信托基金会和霍华德·休斯医学研究所颁发的学术协会管理奖之后，该学会正在将我们的严谨科学、开放获取期刊《》转变为一个开放研究平台。作为其中一部分，我们对学会社群进行了一项调查，以了解当前对该平台的态度，在此我们展示其中一些结果。大多数受访者（57%）表示，他们在同行评审报告上总是或有时希望保持匿名，而75%的受访者表示，作为作者，他们愿意公开其研究的基础数据。对于一系列在严谨科学出版物和严格研究中常见的研究类型，存在明显的需求。令人鼓舞的是，94%的受访者表示该平台是他们会考虑发表文章的地方，这表明这些受访者对为其社群打造的新出版平台充满热情。鉴于这些数据以及我们之前焦点小组研究的数据，该平台将按原项目提案概述的那样推出，并采用具有开放数据政策的透明同行评审模式。
