Theory and practice of peer review.
This course was developed by the Coalition for Open Access Publishing of Public Health in
Africa (COPPHA) and originally offered as a MOOC in 2024. It is published here as a self-paced course, available for self-enrolment, which will cover the following issues
- Understand the ways in which peer review underpins the academic publication process
- Reflect on the challenges of the peer review process
- Appreciate the characteristics of a good peer review and be able to access guidelines
- Post a good peer review using a standard format
- Reflect on the issues of AI in the review process
This course was developed by the Coalition for Open Access Publishing of Public Health in Africa (COPPHA) to explore the theory and practice of open publishing of preprints and open reviewing. This is a copy of the course which ran as a MOOC from January to March 2025, and is now published under a Creative Commons licence for self enrolment. The course covers:
- Principles and examples of Open Access publishing
- Theory and application of the Publish/Review/Curate model
- Preprints and how to upload to a repository
- The principles and practice of open peer review
This site has been prepared by PublicHealth.Africa to provide resources about Open Science to the editors of journals that might publish articles on public health as well as to researchers who might want to publish their research in an open format. This is aimed in particular at journals and researchers in the Global South, but will have general relevance.
- Understand the concepts, advantages and disadvantages of Open Science in relation to public health research
- For journal editors to know how to set up your journal for open publishing
- For researchers to know how to submit your research paper and the underlying data so that they are freely available for open access
- Consider how to explore, develop and advocate for new approaches to the open publication of research and the underlying data