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  • The Unjournal
  • An Introduction to The Unjournal
    • Content overview
    • How to get involved
      • Brief version of call
      • Impactful Research Prize (pilot)
      • Jobs and paid projects with The Unjournal
        • Advisory/team roles (research, management)
        • Administration, operations and management roles
        • Research & operations-linked roles & projects
        • Standalone project: Impactful Research Scoping (temp. pause)
      • Independent evaluations (trial)
        • Reviewers from previous journal submissions
    • Organizational roles and responsibilities
      • Unjournal Field Specialists: Incentives and norms (trial)
    • Our team
      • Reinstein's story in brief
    • Plan of action
    • Explanations & outreach
      • Press releases
      • Outreach texts
      • Related articles and work
    • Updates (earlier)
      • Impactful Research Prize Winners
      • Previous updates
  • Why Unjournal?
    • Reshaping academic evaluation: Beyond accept/reject
    • Promoting open and robust science
    • Global priorities: Theory of Change (Logic Model)
      • Balancing information accessibility and hazard concerns
    • Promoting 'Dynamic Documents' and 'Living Research Projects'
      • Benefits of Dynamic Documents
      • Benefits of Living Research Projects
    • The File Drawer Effect (Article)
    • Open, reliable, and useful evaluation
      • Multiple dimensions of feedback
  • Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)
    • For research authors
    • Evaluation ('refereeing')
    • Suggesting and prioritizing research
  • Our policies: evaluation & workflow
    • Project submission, selection and prioritization
      • What research to target?
      • What specific areas do we cover?
      • Process: prioritizing research
        • Prioritization ratings: discussion
      • Suggesting research (forms, guidance)
      • "Direct evaluation" track
      • "Applied and Policy" Track
      • 'Conditional embargos' & exceptions
      • Formats, research stage, publication status
    • Evaluation
      • For prospective evaluators
      • Guidelines for evaluators
        • Why these guidelines/metrics?
        • Proposed curating robustness replication
        • Conventional guidelines for referee reports
      • Why pay evaluators (reviewers)?
      • Protecting anonymity
    • Mapping evaluation workflow
      • Evaluation workflow – Simplified
    • Communicating results
    • Recap: submissions
  • What is global-priorities-relevant research?
  • "Pivotal questions"
    • ‘Operationalizable’ questions
    • Why "operationalizable questions"?
  • Action and progress
    • Pilot steps
      • Pilot: Building a founding committee
      • Pilot: Identifying key research
      • Pilot: Setting up platforms
      • Setting up evaluation guidelines for pilot papers
      • 'Evaluators': Identifying and engaging
    • Plan of action (cross-link)
  • Grants and proposals
    • Survival and Flourishing Fund (successful)
    • ACX/LTFF grant proposal (as submitted, successful)
      • Notes: post-grant plan and revisions
      • (Linked proposals and comments - moved for now)
    • Unsuccessful applications
      • Clearer Thinking FTX regranting (unsuccessful)
      • FTX Future Fund (for further funding; unsuccessful)
      • Sloan
  • Parallel/partner initiatives and resources
    • eLife
    • Peer Communities In
    • Sciety
    • Asterisk
    • Related: EA/global priorities seminar series
    • EA and EA Forum initiatives
      • EA forum peer reviewing (related)
      • Links to EA Forum/"EA journal"
    • Other non-journal evaluation
    • Economics survey (Charness et al.)
  • Management details [mostly moved to Coda]
    • Governance of The Unjournal
    • Status, expenses, and payments
    • Evaluation manager process
      • Choosing evaluators (considerations)
        • Avoiding COI
        • Tips and text for contacting evaluators (private)
    • UJ Team: resources, onboarding
    • Policies/issues discussion
    • Research scoping discussion spaces
    • Communication and style
  • Tech, tools and resources
    • Tech scoping
    • Hosting & platforms
      • PubPub
      • Kotahi/Sciety (phased out)
        • Kotahi: submit/eval/mgmt (may be phasing out?)
        • Sciety (host & curate evals)
    • This GitBook; editing it, etc
    • Other tech and tools
      • Cryptpad (for evaluator or other anonymity)
      • hypothes.is for collab. annotation
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  • Podcasts, presentations, and video
  • Journal independent evaluation and The Unjournal
  • EA Anywhere (Youtube) – bridging the gap between EA and academia
  • ReproducibiliTea podcast
  • Slide decks
  • "Slaying the journals": Google doc
  • "Moving science beyond ... static journals" ... How EA/nonprofits can help
  • EA forum posts

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  1. An Introduction to The Unjournal

Explanations & outreach

Several expositions for different audiences, fleshing out ideas and plans

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Last updated 10 months ago

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TLDR:

Podcasts, presentations, and video

See/subscribe to

Journal independent evaluation and The Unjournal

EA Anywhere (Youtube) – bridging the gap between EA and academia

ReproducibiliTea podcast

Slide decks

Presentation for EA Anywhere, online event, 5 Nov. 2023 1-2pm ET

Earlier slide decks

July 2023: The slide deck below was last updated in late 2022 and needs some revision. Nonetheless, it illustrates many of the key points that remain relevant.

"Slaying the journals": Google doc

EA forum posts

See slide deck (Link: ; offers comment access)

(Link: ; offers comment access)

Nov 2022: Version targeted towards OSF/Open Science

Earlier discussion document, aimed at EA/global priorities, academic, and open-science audiences

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2021 A shorter outline posted on

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Presentation summarized with time-stamped hyperlinks (+~AI generated content)
bit.ly/unjourrnalpresent
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HERE
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Moving science beyond ... static journals" ... How EA/nonprofits can help
Moving science beyond closed, binary, static journals; a proposed alternative; how the "Effective Altruist" and nontraditional nonprofit sector can help make this happen
onscienceandacademia.org
our YouTube channel
EA Anywhere
LogoProposal: alternative to traditional academic journals for EA-relevant research (multi-link post) - EA Forum
LogoWhat “pivotal” and useful research ... would you like to see assessed? (Bounty for suggestions) - EA Forum
In a nutshell