By Victoria Yan 2022-01-27 update: This work has now been completed. Please see our blog post announcing PReF. Why develop a preprint review taxonomy? Dozens of projects organizing peer review of preprints are active or being developed. In this landscape full of new possibilities, differentiating among innovative forms of preprint review is challenging. Furthermore, these…
Are you keen to show your passion for science and preprints to the non-scientific community? Got an aptitude for writing or showcasing visual art? If this sounds like you, we’re looking for you! Our preprint science communication competition seeks to find new ways to engage and reach out to the general public. Organized by the…
We are thrilled to announce that we will be running a trial to test the crowd review approach for preprint review. We invite cell biologists with an interest in preprints and preprint feedback to join this trial. Why is ASAPbio running this trial? While there is increasing interest in review activities around preprints, the level…
Today, we’re excited to launch the Preprint Reviewer Recruitment Network, a pilot to share researchers’ preprint reviewing experience with journals looking for reviewers or editorial board members. Public preprint feedback has the potential to not only help authors and readers, but also to identify potential reviewers and editorial board members for journals. Unfortunately, finding preprint…
2022-04-27 update: The principles are the focus of a Point of View article in eLife. 2022-01-13 update: The FAST principles have now been posted as a preprint. As Ivan Oransky has noted, ‘science is a proposition and a conversation and an argument’ [1]; feedback and discussion around scientific reports are integral parts of the scientific…
We’re thrilled to announce the speakers for the July 21 #FeedbackASAP meeting! These individuals will discuss why public preprint feedback is needed and what institutions and societies are doing to support it in two plenary sessions at the beginning of the meeting. Time in UTC (duration) Title Description 15:00 (5’) Welcome Kickoff and announcements 15:05…
Blog post by Daniela Saderi and Sarah Greaves In May 2020 a group of publishers and organisations made a direct call in response to the urgent need to openly and rapidly share and review COVID-19 research. More than 2,000 reviewers signed up: their details were shared with the journals or platforms involved, and they were…
![Yearly preprints/all-papers in Microsoft Academic Graph, trend by domain, reproduced from Xie B, Shen Z, and Wang K 2021 [8]](https://asapbio.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/Screenshot-2021-07-01-at-10.03.25-650x422.png "Yearly preprints/all-papers in Microsoft Academic Graph, trend by domain")
Blog post by Christine Ferguson and Martin Fenner Information overload is the difficulty in understanding an issue and effectively making decisions when one has too much information about that issue, and is generally associated with the excessive quantity of daily information. – Wikipedia [1] Information overload is a common problem, and it is an old…
This post originally appeared on the Review Commons blog. Review Commons is announcing two new policies today: As of August 1, 2021, Review Commons will require all authors to post their manuscript as a preprint, prior to transfer to an affiliate journal1. In return, all the affiliate journals provide authors with scooping protection from the date of posting of the…