Updates and announcements from ASAPbio
Are you new to preprints and want to learn more about their use? Have you been using preprints for a while and now want to engage others? Then our Fellows program is for you! The use of preprints in the life sciences has grown over recent years, and an essential driver has been community support…
ASAPbio runs a wide range of community initiatives every year. As 2024 draws to a close, we take a look back at our achievements this year and celebrate our incredible community. Overview of community initiatives and efforts In 2024, ASAPbio ran 7 community calls (where external speakers are invited to talk about a variety of…
As we come to a close on our 5th cohort of ASAPbio Fellows, we wanted to take a moment to celebrate their achievements over the past 8 months. This year, the Fellows program consisted of two tracks: a culture and community track and a projects track. As part of the culture and community track, Fellows…
By Katie Corker (ASAPbio), Ludo Waltman (CWTS Leiden), Jonny Coates (ASAPbio) We are excited to share a new ASAPbio resource: a brief explainer on the Publish-Review-Curate model of scientific communication. We have published the explainer on MetaArXiv, and we invite you to access it here. Abstract: The purpose of this brief is to provide an…
This blog post was co-written by Jonny Coates and 2024 ASAPbio Fellows; Josie, Jade & Lamis It’s peer review week and to celebrate, we are releasing a preview of one of the 2024 ASAPbio Fellows projects focused on investigating the ASAPbio Crowd Preprint Review activities. ASAPbio Crowd Preprint Review The theme of peer review week…
By Katie Corker (ASAPbio) & Lisa Cuevas Shaw (COS) Keeping current on organizations and initiatives that are active in the area of open scholarly communication is challenging. Like other parts of the open science community, the open scholarly communications landscape is decentralized, fast-paced, and constantly evolving. To identify both established and emerging organizations and initiatives,…
Share your research results, data, ideas, or tools for a chance to win one of two $500 cash prizes Transparent and early sharing of data, ideas and protocols Current publishing practices don’t reflect the often disorderly trajectory of scientific research. Negative data, unreplicated results, or early-stage ideas are often omitted from the scientific narrative in…
Being part of the ASAPbio community is an enourmously enriching experience. We know how awesome the community is as we get to work with incredible individuals every day. However, we want the world to know how great our active community members are too, and so earlier this year, we worked with our graphic designer to…
This blog post was written by Aneth Bella David, a 2023 ASAPbio Fellow, and reports on a recently completed community project. The landscape of scholarly communication is rapidly evolving, with preprints emerging as a transformative tool for research dissemination worldwide. However, in Tanzania like the rest of Sub-Saharan Africa, the adoption of preprints for scholarly…
A comprehensive and high quality survey of researcher attitudes toward the scholarly publishing process was published last week. The joint product of a consultation with Research Consulting and the Centre for Science and Technology Studies (CWTS) Leiden, a wide-ranging report on the survey, along with the complete dataset and survey materials, are now available. The…
This is a post written by Gracielle Higino about her community project that was funded in 2023. I was tired of hearing students and colleagues sharing their bad experiences with reviewers. I was tired of working really hard to submit a paper for publication and receiving inconsiderate reviews and editorial decisions. We needed a change…
In 2016, ASAPbio began its journey with a simple yet powerful mission: to accelerate research and communication in the life sciences. Since then, we have made significant strides and contributions to the adoption of preprints and other innovations in scientific publishing. Now, we are thrilled to share some exciting updates that will ensure ASAPbio continues…
Join us to make scholarly communication in the life sciences more open and efficient by catalyzing cultural change in scholarly communication, for instance around the use of preprints and other interim research products, transparent review, and other innovations! About ASAPbio ASAPbio is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization working toward a vision of a life sciences communication…
Are you new to preprints and want to learn more about their use? Have you been using preprints for a while and now want to engage others? Then our Fellows program is for you! The use of preprints in the life sciences has grown over recent years, and an important driver has been community support…
Traditional journal clubs are present in most labs and departments bringing together early career researchers to discuss and review a chosen article. These groups effectively perform peer review but often don’t share the comments with the authors. This year ASAPbio is launching a fund to support current journal clubs in performing (and sharing) peer reviews…
In 2023 we progressed 38 people through the third installment of the ASAPbio Fellows program. Together this group participated in cohort calls to provide fundamental knowledge and training around preprints in addition to multiple projects, which we celebrate here. Awareness of preprints in Africa The adoption of preprints across the globe has not been equitable,…
We’re pleased to announce preprint launch parties during Cell Bio 2023 (Boston, MA, USA)! These lunch events are not formally affiliated with ASCB/EMBO, but will be held Monday and Tuesday, Dec 4 and 5, at a conference room at street level about a 10’ walk from the conference center. The agenda The event will kick…
Take cOAlition S’s survey by the November 29th deadline to support a new model of publishing cOAlition S, an initiative of more than 2 dozen national funders and charitable organizations, has recently released the “Towards Responsible Publishing” proposal. The two key features of this proposal, as stated in an introductory blog post, are: 1. Authors,…
“[T]he Federation of American Scientists (FAS) is partnering with the Center for Open Science and the Wilson Center to source ideas that can chart a course for the next decade of U.S. government action.” See below our response to the call. Motivation: What is an important challenge and/or opportunity in open science you hope to address? Why and why…
Culture change happens within communities. While virtual programs like the ASAPbio Fellows and Community calls link preprint enthusiasts across continents, nothing beats face-to-face interactions. So, as in-person events picked up earlier this year, we created a new program to support discussions about preprints; the ASAPbio Local Hubs program with three community leaders. Here, two of…