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ASAPbio newsletter vol 20 – #bioPreprints2020, Review Commons updates, and more meeting reports

ASAPbio newsletter vol 20 – #bioPreprints2020, Review Commons updates, and more meeting reports

Dear subscribers,

I hope 2020 is treating you well! Since our last update, we’ve been working on a variety of meetings and conference sessions. Here are the highlights.

#bioPreprints2020: Building trust in preprints

the 32 participants are gathered outside in front of Hinxton Hall
The 32 participants gathered outside Hinxton Hall. Photograph by Jeff Dowling.

On January 20 and 21, 2020, over 30 representatives from preprint servers, publishers, funders, and organizations working on standards, indexing, and metadata infrastructure gathered at EMBL-EBI to develop ambitious but achievable recommendations for metadata and processes that would improve the discoverability, reuse, and interoperability of preprints in the life and biomedical sciences. Read a summary of the event, check out pre-meeting blog posts by COPE and NISO, view the agenda and attendees, see Naomi’s opening presentation, and stay tuned as the participants develop outputs from the breakout groups.

Review Commons update: first Refereed Preprint and community meetings

Screengrab of bioRxiv showing where to click to view peer reviews with TRiP

Review Commons is a new collaboration between EMBO and ASAPbio offering peer review before journal submission. We celebrated the posting of its first Refereed Preprint on February 4, and discussed motivations, strategy, and future plans at two community meetings in December. Read the highlights of the discussion and watch the presentations.

Preprints I/O, ASCB, and FORCE11

Also in December, we helped CZI organize a workshop about the technologies and innovations that preprints can enable. Read a report from Preprints I/O. Two meeting attendees, Humberto Debat and Richard Abdill, created a tool called Panlingua to enable readers to search for preprints in their native languages, which they explain in greater detail in a blog post.

In recent months, we also held an ASCB session reimagining peer review in light of preprints, and a panel and dinner at FORCE11 considering the future of preprints.

Roundup

Preprint resources

Are you giving a talk about preprints, peer review or transparency in science? You can browse and reuse slide decks we’ve presented before and watch talk recordings from our resources page.

Until next time,

Jessica Polka

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