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The First Publishing Event in the New Year! Full Unlimited Online Coverage! Was that the real beginning of the new 21st Century? Global challenges changing lives on a scale never seen before – a global pandemic, ferocious evidence of climate change and biodiversity loss, and cyber warfare influencing global leadership against a backdrop where evidence and experts are increasingly discounted in place of tribes with their own truths. Research is increasingly having to step up to meet global challenges and we need robust responses to reclaim trust in both scholarly publishing and the expertise of researchers as we map the path to the future. Covid-19 stress-tested scholarly communication and there’s room for improvement but also inspiration for change. A changing world has led to new solutions and new players – but are they robust and tested for long-term trust? Pre-prints proved a rapid way to communicate potentially crucial findings in a crisis but is the world ready to understand the implications of reading un-tested research? Peer review, the bastion of trusted science, is under scrutiny from those within and outside research and with calls for transparency and openness in science, where next for dissemination of research findings? 2021 is the start of a very new and very different period in history and we come together with purpose and a collaborative spirit.
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APE 2021: The New Face of Trust

Moderated by Magdalena Skipper, Editor-in-Chief, Nature, London
The already rising adoption of preprints across numerous research communities has seen an astronomic increase during the COVID-19 pandemic owing to the need for rapid information sharing during. The benefit is clear and yet it is arguably especially crucial within the health and clinical sciences that scientific findings are appropriately scrutinised before made public. Peer review, considered the cornerstone of scholarly publishing, has not been without its critics, leading to a proliferation of models and experiments. Panellists will share their views on the contribution of preprints to scholarly communication within the community and beyond, and discuss the present and the future of peer review, and its potential. 
Dr. Theodora Bloom, Executive Editor, The BMJ, London
Prof. Dr. Christopher Aiden-Lee Jackson, Equinor Professor of Basin Analysis, Imperial College, London
Dr. Sowmya Swaminathan, Head of Editorial Policy & Research Integrity, Nature Research, Springer Nature USA
Rebecca Lawrence, Managing Director, F1000 Research, London
Dr. Thomas Lemberger, Deputy Head of Scientific Publications, EMBO, Heidelberg

Panel: Balancing the Need for rapid Sharing with the Need for rigorous Evaluation – the Role of Preprints and Peer Review with Magdalena Skipper

Panel: Balancing the Need for rapid Sharing with the Need for rigorous Evaluation – the Role of Preprints and Peer Review

Panel: Balancing the Need for rapid Sharing with the Need for rigorous Evaluation – the Role of Preprints and Peer Review - Panelist Prof. Dr. Christopher Aiden-Lee Jackson

Panel: Balancing the Need for rapid Sharing with the Need for rigorous Evaluation – the Role of Preprints and Peer Review - Panelist Dr. Theodora Bloom

Panel: Balancing the Need for rapid Sharing with the Need for rigorous Evaluation – the Role of Preprints and Peer Review - Dr. Sowmya Swaminathan, Head of Editorial Policy & Research Integrity, Nature Research, Springer Nature USA

Panel: Balancing the Need for rapid Sharing with the Need for rigorous Evaluation – the Role of Preprints and Peer Review - Panelist Dr. Thomas Lemberger