Blog post by the ASAPbio Fellows Giri Athrey and Corrado Nai. The adoption of preprints in the life sciences has increased enormously in the last few years, and preprints have played an important role in the dissemination of the latest findings related to the COVID-19/SARS-CoV-2 pandemic. While preprints are a common form of communication among…
Blog post by ASAPbio Fellows Bradly Alicea, Marco Fumasoni, Yamini Ravichandran & Sarah Stryeck The ASAPBio Fellows program supports early-career researchers and those interested in topics related to the intersection of open science and scientific communication in becoming a resource about preprints for their communities. As part of the program, one working group of Fellows…
On Friday, 2020-11-13, 100 participants gathered at the #PreprintSprint Kickoff to workshop 21 ideas for encouraging more feedback on preprints. While the bulk of the event was spent in breakout sessions, the introductory lightning talks can be found below. Slides can be found here. Project leads are currently integrating ideas and feedback received at the…
Blog post by ASAPbio Fellow Suraj Kannan The recent emergence of preprints in clinical research (most prominently through medRxiv) has raised a number of questions about their potential for benefit/harm. Preprints and preprint servers have existed in various basic and hard science disciplines for the past several decades, and have improved speed of dissemination and…
We’re thrilled to support discussion and feedback to 21 exciting proposals at the Kickoff of the #PreprintSprint on Friday, November 13! At this event, project leads will share their ideas for how to encourage more feedback on preprints, and they will also share what input and resources they need to do that. We hope that…
Organized by: Emily Gurley, PhD and M. Kate Grabowski, PhD; Johns Hopkins University Website or social media links https://ncrc.jhsph.edu/ Current stage of development ongoing project Project duration 1-2 years with longer term potential Project aims Background information on current practices The 2019 Novel Coronavirus Research Compendium (NCRC) is a centralized, publicly available resource that rapidly curates…
Organizer Nokome Bentley, Alexander Ketchakmadze & Colette Doughty from Stencila Website or social media links https://stenci.la/ https://twitter.com/stencila Current stage of development Ongoing project Project duration 1 – 3 months for integrations described here as part of Stencila’s ongoing development Update Our aim for the #PrePrintSprint was to use it as an opportunity to add reviewing…
Organizer Thomas Lemberger, EMBO Website or social media links https://eeb.embo.org Current stage of development EEB is an experimental platform under development and used as sandbox to test ideas about aggregation and human- or machine-mediated curation of preprints. It is linked to EMBO Press and ASAPbio’s Review Commons journal-agnostic preprint review platform and to the SourceData…
Organizer Thomas Lemberger, EMBO Website or social media links https://eeb.embo.org https://reviewcommons.org Current stage of development EEB is an experimental platform under development and used as sandbox to test ideas about aggregation and mining of refereed preprints. Project duration 3 years How has your project changed? In view of the feedback received we have decided to…
Organizer The PubPeer Foundation, represented by Brandon Stell and Boris Barbour Website or social media links https://peeriodicals.com @peeriodicals Current stage of development Ongoing project Project duration Indefinite Update How has your project changed? No changes. Have you integrated any feedback received? We received a useful suggestion to provide case studies for specific Peeriodicals applications to…
Organizer Victor Venema, Grassroots Review Journals, University of Bonn, Germany Website or social media links Concept homepage Development server GIT Future integrations Mastodon Twitter Reddit Current stage of development Main design for the communities (review journals) is ready to be implemented. Multiple communication channels set-up apart from a newsletter/distribution list. Project duration Years, but for…
Organizer Ms Joy Owango (TCC Africa) and Ms Jo Havemann (AfricArXiv) Website or social media links https://www.tcc-africa.org/ https://info.africarxiv.org/ Joy Owango: joy.owango@tcc-africa.orgJohanna Havemann: info@access2perspectives.com // jo@africarxiv.org Current stage of development AfricArXiv is an Open Access portal launched in June 2018, which serves primarily as a preprint repository. Beyond that it serves as a hub and…
Organizers Daniela Saderi (PREreview Co-Founder and Director) and Sarah Greaves (STM Publishing Consultant) Website or social media links OASPA announcement Project website Digital Science Blog Post: “Does creating a rapid reviewer pool improve trust in COVID-19 peer review?” Digital Science Blog Post: “Creating a rapid reviewer pool…..and trying to use it” Poster (Zenodo) Current stage…
Organizer Philip N. Cohen and Micah Altman Website or social media links philipncohen.com micahaltman.com Current stage of development Ready to be implemented Project duration 2 years Update Have you integrated any feedback received? concept of a ‘market’ for peer review clearly resonated with a number of commentator which stimulated a number of reflections on the…
Organizer Felix Richter (Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology, University of Oxford) Nicolas Vabret (Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York) Website COVID-19 Literature Review Oxford COVID-19 Mount Sinai References: 1 Vabret N, Samstein R, Fernandez N, Merad M; Sinai Immunology Review Project; Trainees; Faculty. Advancing scientific knowledge in times of pandemics. Nat Rev Immunol.…
Organizer PREreview: Antoinette Foster, Monica Granados, Samantha Hindle, Katrina Murphy, Daniela Saderi Simply Secure: Georgia Bullen, Carissa Yao Website or social media links https://prereview.org https://twitter.com/PREreview_ https://github.com/prereview Current stage of development Ongoing / idea Project duration 2 years Update How has your project changed? The Sprint confirmed that our project roadmap is developing along the right…
Organizer Thomas Guillemaud, Denis Bourguet and Marjolaine Hamelin (INRAE, France) Current stage of development Idea Project duration NA given the nature of the project (share and offer of an idea) Update How has your project changed? We refocused on the importance of the evaluation history of preprints. Even the title of the project has changed…
Organizer Dragan Okanovic Website or social media links unfoldresearch.com twitter.com/UnfoldResearch Current stage of development Ongoing project Project duration first phase – 8mth, additional phases – 4yrs+ Update Since the Kickoff, the project’s architecture was mostly rethought, both at the backend implementation side as well as UX side. How has your project changed? It hasn’t changed…
Organizer Directed by Gavin McStay (Staffordshire University), founded by Thomas Krichel (Open Library Society) Website or social media links http://biomed.news Current stage of development Ongoing Project duration Indefinite Project aims Bims is a rapid dissemination system for new papers in PubMed. Bims is powered by human selectors acting as machine teachers.How does this benefit preprints? We expect that PubMed will increase…
Organizer Life Science Editors (Helen Pickersgill, Angela Andersen, Marie Bao, Carol Featherstone, Shawna Hiley, Sabbi Lall, Li-Kuo Su) Website or social media links www.lifescienceeditors.com Current stage of development Idea Project duration Indefinitely Update How has your project changed? We introduced an additional option to incentivize authors to initiate peer review. As an alternative to requesting…