Motivating peer reviewers and using Reviewer credits
EIFL webinar based on knowledge and experiences from projects implemented to strengthen no-fee (Diamond) open access journal publishing

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Event Date: 08 Jul 2026
Online

Join this EIFL webinar to discuss strategies and tools to motivate your journal peer reviewers and Reviewer credits tool.

Panellists Chris Armstrong from The African Journal of Information and Communication (AJIC) and Linda Fick and Nadia Grobler from The South African Journal of Science (SAJS) will share their experiences on implementing Reviewer Credits – a cross-publisher platform to reward peer reviewers, followed up by a discussion on motivating peer reviewers. 

Date and time: Wednesday July 8 at 9 UTC (Convert to your timezone)

Registration: please register here

Read more about AJIC developments here and SAJS development here

This webinar is a part of a series of EIFL webinars based on knowledge and experience gained from implementing projects to strengthen no-fee (Diamond) open access journal publishing. Future topics include training programmes for editorial teams, reviewers and authors; approaches to optimizing journal processes and workflows; performing expert audits to inform strategic planning and shape the journal profile; journal impact, communications, marketing and visibility strategies; financial sustainability planning; collaboration, and other topics suggested by webinar participants. The presenters are grantees of the ‘Collaboration for sustainable open access publishing in Africa’ project, implemented by EIFL, AJOL (African Journals Online) and WACREN (the West and Central African Research and Education Network) with funding from Wellcome. 

See the slides and recording of the first webinar on building editorial capacity through mentorship.