Author: michele
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Preprint peer reviews
Europe PMC started indexing preprint articles in 2018 alongside journal peer-reviewed articles. During the COVID-19 pandemic preprints became increasingly popular as they offered immediate access to resarch findings and data. But it was left up to the reader to make a judgement about the robustness of the science as no peer reviews were available. Several…
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Navigating change part 4 : embedding processes and best practice
In my last few weeks and months at EMBL-EBI I put a lot of energy and time into improving and embedding team processes and documentation. This broadly fell into four areas: Sharing user research insights I carried out several different user research studies during the 8 years I was in the team. Some of these…
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Navigating change part 3: leadership during change
In my last post I covered how I influenced stakeholders and strategy in my role at EMBL-EBI. In this post I’ll cover how my role evolved and some of the leadership challenges I faced along the way. Between 2017 and 2019 my team was very busy delivering some significant projects. These included: In 2019 my…
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Navigating change part 2: influencing stakeholders and strategy
This is my second post in a series about navigating change in my role at EMBL-EBI. In my last post I covered introducing new ways of working to the team. In this post I will cover some examples of how I was able to influence stakeholders and the strategy of Europe PMC. As well as…
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Navigating change part 1: introducing new ways of working
In 2015 I joined EMBL-EBI as a User Experience (UX) Designer for Europe PMC, an open access life sciences literature archive. The role was created because the funders identified a need to improve the user experience of Europe PMC. The team were unfamiliar with UX and it was my job to introduce user-centred design. This…
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The importance of investing in yourself
The last few years have been challenging. This year I decided it was time to do something I’ve neglected for a few years. I invested in myself and my personal and professional development. For the last 8.5 years I’ve been working at the European Bioinformatics Institute | EMBL-EBI, making it easier for life sciences researchers…
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Article status monitoring tool
Research articles can have have several different statuses. These include for example: published, withdrawn, retracted or removed. Knowing the status of an article is important for anyone who is citing an article. If an article is retracted, withdrawn or removed it may be due to concerns about the scientific method or results which could not…
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COVID-19 full text preprints
Scientific research has traditionally undergone a rigorous peer review process by experts in the field, before being published in journals and available to read. Prior to the pandemic, preprints were a relatively new format of research article that enable researchers to share their results and data early, before journal peer review is complete. At the…
