Post by Iratxe Puebla, Associate Director, ASAPbio We are at the end of 2021, a good time to reflect on the accomplishments and lessons of the year. One of the highlights for me has been, without a doubt, our fantastic group of 2021 ASAPbio Fellows. Following the success of the Fellows program last year, we…
We are pleased to announce the winners of the first ASAPbio preprint communication competition, which aimed to communicate to a wide audience the value proposition of preprints as a tool for research communication. Preprints played a crucial role during the COVID-19 pandemic, speeding up the dissemination of scientific findings that led to a quicker understanding…
ASAPbio’s Preprint Reviewer Recruitment Network aims to help researchers, especially ECRs, break into reviewing or editing roles by sharing their comments and reviews of preprints as examples of their work. Comments and feedback to preprints can occur in many forms. We are partnering with PREreview to host a live-streamed preprint journal club, an opportunity for…
View COAR’s post about preliminary results from a COAR and ASAPbio survey of preprints in institutional and generalist repositories [External link]
On October 6, we gathered virtually for a lively discussion about the benefits of preprints for early career researchers. The event was an initiative by the ASAPbio Fellows Keti Zeka, Nafisa Jadavji, Gabriela Nogueira Viçosa, Osman Aldirdiri and Eider Valle Encinas. Through this webinar, the Fellows aimed to raise awareness about preprints but also provide…
Our crowd preprint review trial has been running for a month. We discuss the trial in this blog post on Sciety.org. [External link]
ASAPbio’s Preprint Reviewer Recruitment Network aims to help researchers, especially ECRs, break into reviewing or editing roles by sharing their comments and reviews of preprints as examples of their work. We recognize that people have diverse backgrounds and prior experiences in peer review. To assist researchers in the Network in developing their expertise with writing…
Wednesday, 6 October 2021 9am Los Angeles | 12pm New York | 1pm São Paulo | 5pm London | 9:30pm Mumbai | 12am Hong Kong The use of preprints is growing in the life sciences. Preprints help researchers worldwide to accelerate dissemination of research findings to the scientific community, but how exactly can preprints be…
Blog post by Iratxe Puebla and the ASAPbio Fellows Tara Fischer, Gautam Dey, Jonny Coates, Aleksandra Petelski, Vanessa Bortoluzzi & Gilbert Kibet-Rono A key step in the research process is the communication of researchers’ work to the scientific community. Preprints can bring many benefits to science communication, but the inner workings of the publication process…
We sent the list of signatories below to the ARC on September 3, 2021. The Australian Research Council (ARC) does not allow researchers to cite preprints in their grant applications and recently disqualified a number of applications for this reason. Preprints advance scientific discovery and are encouraged by many funders, including Australia’s National Health and…
Good scholarship calls for citing work from which ideas come. But unfortunately, when submitting to a small number of journals, you may be asked to remove a citation to a preprint. Here’s how to handle it. Why (not) cite preprints? Previously on this blog, we covered the importance of giving due credit to all works…
Assembled following the July 21, 2021 FeedbackASAP meeting.
The growth of preprints in the life sciences has amplified earlier concerns about the challenges of keeping abreast of the latest research findings. Researchers need to keep up to date not only with the most recent publications in journals but also with the latest scholarly work posted on preprint servers. Three quarters of the respondents…
By Victoria Yan At the ASAPbio #FeedbackASAP meeting held on July 21st, 2021, the Sciety team (Hannah Drury, Godwyns Onwuchekwa, and Paul Shannon) led an interactive session examining different aspects of the evolving landscape of preprint curation and review. What is curation? We began the session by brainstorming what curation encompasses. Through a mind-mapping exercise,…
As part of the July 21, 2021 FeedbackASAP meeting, Ludo Waltman (CWTS, Leiden University), James Fraser (UCSF), Cooper Smout (Free Our Knowledge) organized a breakout session entitled “Posting journal reviews on preprints” to identity an evolutionary bridge between a system based around journal-organized peer review and referred preprints. Peer reviewing: for whom and why? The…