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Blog Category: ASAPbio news

Explore the New Preprint Review Metadata Documentation
In 2023, ASAPbio and Europe PMC held a joint meeting on preprint review metadata. The event saw representatives from preprint review projects, infrastructure providers, publishers, funders, and other stakeholders convened to collaboratively determine the key elements of preprint review metadata and mechanisms for sharing this info...
Jun 18, 2025
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Life Science Research Funders Should Recommend or Require CC-BY Licenses for the Research They Fund

Mar 16, 2025
As stewards of the funds they award, life science research funders are eager to maximize the value of their grants. One low-cost way to do so is to recommend – or better yet require – grantees to publish the outputs of their research (including preprints) using Creative Commons attribution, or CC-BY, licenses.
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A Refresh of the ASAPbio Community Programs; launching soon

Feb 24, 2025
The ASAPbio community is undergoing a refresh for 2025. There will be clearer routes to getting involved in ASAPbio activities and a greater emphasis on our amazing community.
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ASAPbio: Our new strategic direction from 2025

Feb 17, 2025
To kick off 2025, we at ASAPbio held our January community call on the topic of what’s next for ASAPbio’s strategic direction. If you weren’t able to make it, you can watch the recording (below).
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A Message of Support from ASAPbio

Feb 10, 2025
Rapid, sweeping, and unprecedented changes in the research environment in the U.S. undermine scientific integrity and threaten human health in the immediate term, with the threat of mass layoffs and associated economic effects seemingly likely to soon follow.
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Announcing the Winners of the 2024 ASAPbio Poster Competition

Jan 16, 2025
In 2024, ASAPbio ran a poster competition encouraging the transparent and early sharing of data, ideas and protocols. Early dissemination is vital in times of emergency, such as global pandemics.
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