ASAPbio Community Initiatives; a look back over 2024
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…
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2024; A highly productive and successful Fellows cohort
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,…
Understanding the Publish-Review-Curate (PRC) Model of Scholarly Communication
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.…
A sneak peak inside the ASAPbio Crowd Preprint Review initiative
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…
Introducing a Prototype Directory of Organizations and Initiatives in Open Scholarly Communication
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…
Announcing the ASAPbio 2024 poster competition
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…
ASAPbio Digital Badges; Recognising the efforts of our community members
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…
A hands-on preprint workshop
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…
What Do Researchers Think about Scholarly Publishing? Five Key Takeaways from a New Survey by cOAlition S
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…
A crowdsourced kind peer review guide for ECRs in Ecology and Evolution
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…