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…
Guest post by; Doherty Funmilayo PhD, Atoyebi Abdulwakeel O., Balogun Peter, Aguh Anthony and Adamolekun Emmanuel A hybrid training titled “Empowering Researchers: Leveraging Preprints for Academic Advancement” was organized by Yaba College of Technology, Centre for Research Support and Grants Management, Lagos, Nigeria on March 11, 2024 and sponsored by ASAPbio as one of their…
Victoria Yan started her preprint advocate journey as the Project Coordinator for ASAPbio’s ReimagineReview. She is now an Open Science Research Information Specialist at EMBL in Heidelberg, Germany. In the following interview, we discuss how EMBL is promoting the use of recognition of preprints from an institutional perspective. How do preprints fit into the bigger…
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,…