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ASAPbio May Community Call: Research Funders and Organizations Aligning for Open Research: The Preprint Policy Framework

On May 14, 2026, ASAPbio was joined by members of the Creative Commons team: Taylor Campbell, Senior Manager, Open Data Policy and Governance, and Monica Granados, Director of Open Science, to discuss the Preprint Policy Framework. The Preprint Policy Framework is an initiative launched last year by Creative Commons and ASAPbio, who collaborated with several research funders to align preprint policies and create a standard Framework.
May 17, 2026

ASAPbio March Community Call: A Team Effort: Why and How to do Open Collaborative Peer Review

On March 5th, 2026, the ASAPbio and PREreview teams, along with representatives of some PREreview Clubs, gathered to discuss the ins and outs of conducting open peer review as part of a team.  After brief introductions, Daniela Saderi, co-founde... During her PhD studies, Daniela led her Department’s Journal Club.
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Three people stand in front of a Yaba College of Technology banner. Two women on the left wear Fast-Tracking Research with Preprints t-shirts, and a man on the right wears a patterned shirt. They are smiling and posing for the photo.

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 ...
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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?
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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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