Converting Access Microbiology to an open research platform: focus group and AI review tool research results

The Microbiology Society will be launching an open research platform in October 2021. Developed using funding from the Wellcome Trust and the Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI), the platform will combine our current sound-science journal, Access Microbiology, with artificial intelligence (AI) review tools and many of the elements of a preprint server. In an effort to improve the rigour, reproducibility and transparency of the academic record, the Access Microbiology platform will host both preprints of articles and their Version of Record (VOR) publications, as well as the reviewer reports, Editor's decision, authors' response to reviewers and the AI review reports. To ensure the platform meets the needs of our community, in February 2020 we conducted focus group meetings with various stakeholders. Using articles previously submitted to Access Microbiology, we undertook testing of a range of potential AI review tools and investigated the technical feasibility and utility of including these tools as part of the platform. In keeping with the open and transparent ethos of the platform, we present here a summary of the focus group feedback and AI review tool testing.

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Converting Access Microbiology to an open research platform: community survey results

Access Microbiology ◽

10.1099/acmi.0.000272 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 3 (9) ◽

Author(s):

Alexandra M. Howat ◽

Justin Clark

Keyword(s):

Peer Review ◽

Open Data ◽

Howard Hughes Medical Institute ◽

Open Access Journal ◽

Medical Institute ◽

Project Proposal ◽

Focus Group Research ◽

Open Research ◽

Research Platform ◽

Review Model

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, Access Microbiology, 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.

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Faculty Opinions recommendation of Asymmetric Catalysis in Diversity-Oriented Organic Synthesis: Enantioselective Synthesis of 4320 Encoded and Spatially Segregated Dihydropyrancarboxamides We thank the National Institute of General Medical Sciences (GM-52067) for support of this research, and Dr. John Tallarico and Max Narovlyansky at the ICCB for generously providing resin for the library synthesis. We thank Dr. Helen Blackwell and Lucy Pérez for expert help with library encoding. We are grateful to Prof. Eric Jacobsen and Prof. Scott Denmark for the use of their chiral stationary phase high pressure liquid chromatograph and supercritical fluid chromatograph, respectively. The Harvard ICCB is supported by Merck & Co., Merck KGaA, the Keck Foundation, and the National Cancer Institute. R.A.S. is a Research Associate and S.L.S. is an Investigator with the Howard Hughes Medical Institute at the Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Harvard University.

Faculty Opinions – Post-Publication Peer Review of the Biomedical Literature ◽

10.3410/f.1003104.32305 ◽

2002 ◽

Author(s):

Stefan Bräse

Keyword(s):

Asymmetric Catalysis ◽

Chiral Stationary Phase ◽

Howard Hughes Medical Institute ◽

Harvard University ◽

Medical Institute ◽

Library Synthesis ◽

Medical Sciences ◽

Liquid Chromatograph ◽

Research Associate ◽

High Pressure Liquid Chromatograph

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Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI)

10.1057/978-1-349-96042-2_2724 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 481-482

Keyword(s):

Howard Hughes Medical Institute ◽

Medical Institute

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UAV Lab, Open Research Platform for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles

Advances in Aerospace Guidance, Navigation and Control ◽

10.1007/978-3-642-19817-5_14 ◽

2011 ◽

pp. 175-186 ◽

Cited By ~ 4

Author(s):

Péter Bauer ◽

Paw Yew Chai ◽

Luigi Iannelli ◽

Rohit Pandita ◽

Gergely Regula ◽

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Keyword(s):

Unmanned Aerial Vehicles ◽

Aerial Vehicles ◽

Open Research ◽

Research Platform

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The Howard Hughes Medical Institute

Molecular Medicine ◽

10.1007/bf03402196 ◽

1996 ◽

Vol 2 (1) ◽

pp. 1-3

Author(s):

Purnell W. Choppin

Keyword(s):

Howard Hughes Medical Institute ◽

Medical Institute

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The development and implementation of a new medical biology major including physiology

AJP Advances in Physiology Education ◽

10.1152/advan.00010.2015 ◽

2015 ◽

Vol 39 (2) ◽

pp. 67-75 ◽

Cited By ~ 3

Author(s):

Barbara E. Goodman ◽

Karen L. Koster ◽

David L. Swanson

Keyword(s):

South Dakota ◽

Ad Hoc ◽

Doctoral Programs ◽

Howard Hughes Medical Institute ◽

Medical Institute ◽

Biomedical Sciences ◽

Medical College ◽

Curriculum Review ◽

The University ◽

Science Departments

In response to the Howard Hughes Medical Institute/Association of American Medical Colleges Scientific Foundations for Future Physicians (SFFP) report and a concern for better preparing undergraduates for future doctoral programs in the health professions, the deans of the College of Arts and Sciences and Division of Basic Biomedical Sciences of Sanford School of Medicine of the University of South Dakota formed an ad hoc Premedical Curriculum Review Committee with representatives from the science departments and medical school. The Committee began by reviewing the university's suggested premedical curriculum and matching it to the proposed competencies from the SFFP to document duplications and deficiencies. The proposed changes in the Medical College Admission Test for 2015 were also evaluated. The Committee proposed a stronger premedical curriculum, with the development of some new courses, including an inquiry-based physiology course with team-based learning, to more fully address SFFP competencies. These analyses convinced the university that a new major would best help students achieve the competencies and prepare them for admission exams. Thus, a new Medical Biology major was proposed to the South Dakota Board of Regents and accepted for its initial offering in 2012. The new major has been broadly advertised to future students and is successful as a recruiting tool for the university. This article details the process of evaluating the curriculum and designing the new major, describes some of the difficulties in its implementation, and reviews outcomes from the new major to date.

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