 a background about what we're doing and where we're trying to go. One last thing to add too is that we are a very small organization, so our Publications Department is the largest, but we have in the low 20s of employees, it's influx right now, so I don't want to give an exact number, but we have less than 25 employees. So when we were looking at using Hypothesis, you know, I've had these questions up here for a while, it's the typical things, especially that a small society would look at what's involved, basically costs, what would be involved of our staff. Would our communities really enjoy it? Are there other ways that we can bring in other departments? What are some of our competitors doing? And not even just competitors, what are some of our, you know, parallel different people who are publishing scientifically, but in different fields? So competitors is probably not the best word, but what are some of our peers doing? And the hardest question of all, again, for a small society is where do we start? I have to say that Hypothesis is never short of amazing. I know how busy everyone on their staff is and they drop everything for training and to give us their ideas and thoughts, and that has been the most amazing part of all of this. So I mentioned the plant cell is really where we decided to dive in and focus first. This is our flagship journal. We have a lot of eyes on this journal. It is, we're celebrating our 30th anniversary this year. So we have a lot of fun activities planned for our annual meeting this year. We have a special feature that we're going to be highlighting this summer in the plant cell called Reflections on Plant Cell, in which past authors and editors and chief and just dignitaries from the journal are writing short reflections on the work from the journal that meant the most to them or whatever. And this is an example of the evolution of our use of Hypothesis. We plan to heavily use Hypothesis. I don't even have this in the slides and this has changed since the presentation I gave with Heather at the beginning of the month. We plan to use Hypothesis to start discussions on those reflection articles but bring people back to the original articles that are being referred to. But then as it turns out, people that were writing the reflections couldn't just write about one article. And it's, many articles often are cited in just the one reflection and we really want to bring people together and discuss the connections because they are making connections that we weren't really thinking about. So we would like to let the same thing happen for our readership and our Hypothesis users. So this is a way that we really can see a way to push out a more overall use of Hypothesis with our authors, reviewers, editors, anyone that's out there. We also can really see too that our early career researchers are excited about this and we have a new person on our staff again since I gave this last presentation with Heather at the beginning of the month and she is solely devoted to cultivating and finding relationships with all of our different constituencies. So that will be part of that evolution. The first thing though that we did dive in to using Hypothesis for though is another really exciting and special thing that the plant cell does is, I mean I know not everyone in this room is involved with scientific publishing but peer review traditionally has been a very behind the curtain type of thing, very anonymous. People did not publish peer review reports. I will say that we do not have fully transparent peer review reports but this journal, if we have permission from both the reviewers and the authors then we go ahead and publish our peer review reports. Again the reviewers are not identified but it is a really brave and exciting move for us because in some cases if papers are very specific even though the reviewers remain anonymous it can in some cases be clear you know who those reviewers might have been. So that's been something that's exciting for us. The challenge though has been in the past two years that we've printed them. Our online provider HiWire has not been able to give us a really great way to highlight these reports. They're kind of buried and I can show you. This is what a peer review report looks like but they're kind of buried down at the bottom of the page. It says peer review report. It's in the supplemental data and then there's also another place on the right hand side of the web page. Again that's not super duper obvious as to where it appears. So our effort is in linking all of these peer review reports back to the actual article. So this is an example of some matching annotations of our peer review reports. So challenges that we've seen along the way and I alluded to these a bit but staff time and buy-in I think we're getting past that but it's just it's just one of these things that everyone's like yes hypothesis looks super cool but we also have journals to get out the door so you know whatever but now they're really seen and they're saying oh hey you know what if you know how can we use hypothesis in this way so that that has been slow but steady increase in buy-in. Our ed board I will get I will get to you know we have a new initiative coming up that's really exciting that our ed board is getting more and more excited about this and I will also mention too that our one journal the plant cell is also interested in using hypothesis during the peer review process itself. So that would involve that would involve working with our peer review manager or vendor for that which is e-journal press so we would have to work with them to do that again another time concern but also I think it would be worth it in the end and then another challenge I don't want to say it's a challenge because hypothesis makes it as easy as it can be but we need to find more and more ways to implement the use of hypothesis then to kind of market out how we are using it I will say that our organization on an individual and an organization level is very active on Twitter so I think once we get rolling all of the marketing will just follow from that easy organic social media tool. So looking forward again I mentioned that the plant cell is considering using hypothesis during the peer review process this is but this is the project that I am most excited about so we are going to be participating in a pilot program with bio archive and again for those not familiar with bio archive just very simply this is an opportunity for scientists to deposit their mostly complete or already complete but it helps scientists to get their work out into the world quickly and without having to go through the whole publication process some journals don't allow it but our journals do allow submission directly from bio archive so this works for us so bio archive actually approached us and said we know your hypothesis users and we know you support open peer review would you be interested in using hypothesis then to post all of the peer review reports that you have on articles that had been submitted from bio archive that are freely available there on bio archive so we're really excited about this we haven't gotten started yet but we're in the initial stages of working on this pilot and this is just a little idea of what bio archive an article on bio archive looks like then with invitation also what's up next plant physiology this is our largest volume journal and again it's a very well-respected journal in the plant biology field so we have an ed board meeting coming up in June and once again on our agenda at this time this journal does not publish peer review reports of any kind and they've been opposed until now we are hoping that a hypothesis demo and also pointing out what is going on on their sister journal the plant cell will encourage them to maybe move forward with the open peer review nevertheless we will be rolling rolling out the tool on plant physiology and we'll find other ways to use it for sure but really we're hoping that open peer review takes off with that journal as well and again I mentioned plant a this is our digital ecosystem and indeed we have lots to offer here I didn't even mention that we have a podcast that's with the picture on the right is that's our editor in chief of a sister journal that we have and then also an ed board member of the plant cell they have a really engaging podcast that even if you're not a plant biologist I can highly recommend called taproot that's just an aside but those are the types of conversations that we're hoping to weave into our our journal content and vice versa using hypothesis I had one more puppy oh shoot okay so again and I have my I have it fixed on my thing here Heather I gave Heather Heather Stain's here typo on the slide last time but I fixed it so thanks Heather for doing that and I just you know if you have any questions please let me know either now or you can tweet me or email me or whatever thanks for the presentation it's really informative it sounds like TPC as your flagship journal would be a little bit of a gamble to introduce hypothesis on first what were the decisions that let you do that because they are just so open they are so open to change and doing things differently and I think also because it is our flagship journal tied to that journal are very prestigious researchers and career plant biologists who feel very established in their field so even like I mentioned with the peer review reports it's possible that one could be identified even though they're anonymous as reviewers and they don't care I mean they're just so secure and in their stature and they're always looking at ways though too they realize they can't just always ride this tradition of excellence they need to bring in early career researchers so that's why they're always trying out these new you know exciting ideas that would also involve others and they understand the need to keep eyes on our articles and and so forth so a supportive editorial board that's awesome yes and I would say so the reason plant physiology doesn't again those are very esteemed plant biologists and researchers but they've just been uncomfortable with a lot of these different initiatives so my second question is about the bio archive initiative that you guys are taking will the peer review results be posted on preprints that are subsequently rejected okay so that's a really great question and we are going to discuss that at the next Ed Board meeting in August of the plant cell I have a feeling that they will be open to that I also will say though that that's part of the conversation that we're having with Cold Spring Harbor is the host of bio archive and the folks there haven't even decided if they're going to do that either so that pilot is actually starting with just the published articles and journals but I would have to say that I think that our our plant cell Ed Board would be supportive of that honestly they're they're very proud of their peer review and so forth so great questions thank you