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Empowering Researchers: Leveraging Preprints for Academic Advancement

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... The significant event brought together participants in research, and academia, both physically and virtually, to unlock the transformative potential of preprints – a revolutionary tool that promises to accelerate the dissemination of knowledge and ...

Apr 04, 2024

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Events

The trials and tribulations of post publication peer review; Recap from November Community Call

In our November 2023 community call, we heard from Lonni Besancon (Assistant Professor, Linkoping University) about his work exposing fraudulent and unreliable science. Lonni began with an overview of how he started researching reliability issu... Lonni described how this quality checking was particularly important during COVID-19 pandemic and how he and others identified COVID-19 work that was potentially problematic, including by looking at the time between submission and acceptance.

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Community and commercialisation in biomedical preprint servers

Science is a community effort, but publishing has long been co-opted by commercial interests, where researchers’ labor in authoring, reviewing, and editing are used to bolster publishers’ profits. Preprints are free to post and read, but to what extent do commercial interests influence the space?

Announcement for an ASAPbio Community Call titled Preprints in Japan and China: perspectives from Jxiv and Sciencepaper Online. Speakers include Ritsuko Nakajima and Min Li. Scheduled for January 25, 2023, at 9am London, 5pm Beijing, and 6pm Tokyo.

Insights about the use of preprints in Japan and China: recap from the ASAPbio January Community Call

Our first Community Call of 2023 hosted a discussion about the use of preprints by communities in East Asia. While there has been increasing use of preprints in the last few years, trends so far suggest that communities from different geographical regions are at different stages of adoption.

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Do you have a preprint in progress and want constructive feedback? Submit it for discussion at the ASAPbio-PREreview live-streamed preprint journal clubs

Preprints provide a great avenue for researchers to get feedback on their work from the community. This type of community feedback is particularly valuable when gathered on early preprints, that is, on manuscripts that are still work-in-progress, prior to their submission for journal publication.

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‘Preprints and open science’ workshop – Raising awareness about preprints in Sudan

On July 19, the Medicinal and Aromatics and Traditional Medicine Research Institute, National Center for Research, in Khartoum (Sudan), hosted a workshop about preprints and open science. The event was sponsored by ASAPbio and aimed to raise awareness around preprints among the local community of researchers, help them build skills about a productive use of preprints, and learn more about their place within open science.

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