Introducing PReF: Preprint Review Features
This post originally appeared on ReimagineReview. Preprint reviews hold the potential to build trust in preprints and drive innovation in peer review. However, the variety of platforms available to contribute comments and reviews on preprints means that it can be difficult for readers to gain a clear picture of the process that led to the…
Delving deeper into preprints in institutional and generalist repositories
As open scholarship practices grow, dedicated preprint servers are springing up in many disciplines. However, researchers are also depositing preprints in other platforms, including institutional and generalist repositories. These destinations can be familiar to researchers and well-integrated into the scholarly communications infrastructure, but many do not presently offer the same preprint-related features found in purpose-built…
ASAPbio preprint commenting coworking sessions
Tuesday, January 11, 2022 – 9am PT, 12pm ET, 5pm UTC (see in your time zone) – Register here Wednesday, January 12, 2022 – 6am PT, 9pm ET, 2pm UTC (see in your time zone) – Register here Feedback on preprints doesn’t have to take the shape of a journal-style review. Short comments or questions…
Partnering with PREreview to host a live preprint journal club
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…
Expanding our global capacity for preprint sharing
View COAR’s post about preliminary results from a COAR and ASAPbio survey of preprints in institutional and generalist repositories [External link]
Crowd preprint review update on Sciety
Our crowd preprint review trial has been running for a month. We discuss the trial in this blog post on Sciety.org. [External link]
‘How to peer review’ workshops for the Preprint Reviewer Recruitment Network
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…
Urging the Australian Research Council to revise its preprint policies
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…
What to do if you’re asked to remove a citation to a preprint
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…
FAQ on public preprint feedback
Assembled following the July 21, 2021 FeedbackASAP meeting.
Curation and review in the preprint landscape
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,…
Considering campaigns to post journal reviews on preprints
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…
Public preprint review as a tool to empower the next generation of socially-conscious peer reviewers
By Rebeccah Lijek and Jessica Polka At the July 21, 2021 #FeedbackASAP meeting, Mugdha Sathe (UW), Rebeccah Lijek (Mount Holyoke), Daniela Saderi (PREreview) organized a breakout session on using public preprint review in teaching and mentorship of early career researchers. Who is a “peer?” The session began with Daniela Saderi leading us in discussion about…