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ASAPbio Digital Badges; Recognising the efforts of our community members

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.
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A hands-on preprint workshop

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.
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Bar chart showing the effectiveness of preprints in five areas: Feedback, Academic Discourse, Research Transparency, Early Access, and Research Accessibility. Color-coded by effectiveness: extremely, very, moderately, slightly, not effective.

What Do Researchers Think about Scholarly Publishing? Five Key Takeaways from a New Survey by cOAlition S

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.
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Webpage showcasing Gracielle Higinos academic publications. Includes titles, authors, and categories for studies on ecological genetics, conservation biology, and information systems in science. Publications are dated June and July 2024.

A crowdsourced kind peer review guide for ECRs in Ecology and Evolution

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.
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ASAPbio Announces New Executive Director, Board Leadership

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.
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We're hiring

Job posting: Executive Director of ASAPbio (deadline Feb 19)

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... ASAPbio is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization working toward a vision of a life sciences communication ecosystem where all papers and other outputs are shared rapidly and without restrictions on access or reuse, and open and constructive exchanges ta...
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