Editors of Social Sciences and Humanities (SSH) open access (OA) journals are invited to join this webinar on current journal policies and practices for evaluating unreviewed and peer-reviewed manuscripts that are already available on preprint servers or in open repositories. 

The webinar is organized by the OPERAS Best Practices Special Interest Group, and will be facilitated by Iryna Kuchma, EIFL Open Access Programme Manager. 

• Date and time:  18th June, 2 PM CEST 
• Registration: Please register here. 

Preprints are scientific manuscripts publicly shared on preprint platforms before submission to a journal. An increasing number of journals accept preprints. Early and open sharing supports transparent research practices and helps improve research reproducibility.

Valentin Cojanu, Editor-in-chief of The Journal of Philosophical Economics, Bucharest University of Economic Studies in Romania; Thomas Guillemaud, co-founder and co-manager of the nonprofit organization, Peer Community In (PCI), France, and François-Claude Rey, Editorial Board member and Editor of Data & Corpus journal, France, will give input and lead discussion on:

• Experiences with receiving and publishing manuscripts originally made available as preprints; 
• Addressing similarity checker issues during manuscript screening; 
• Modifying double-blind peer review workflow when reviewing preprints; 
• How to use reports from preprint review services in the journal's decision-making process; 
• Recommendations to SSH OA journals who would like to develop their preprint policy and instructions to authors.