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Laying the foundation for preprints at EMBL – an interview with Victoria Yan

Victoria Yan started her preprint advocate journey as the Project Coordinator for ASAPbio’s ReimagineReview. She is now an Open Science Research Information Specialist at EMBL in Heidelberg, Germany.

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‘Open science and preprints’ lecture at the University of Belgrade – Raising awareness about preprints in the Serbian community

Post by ASAPbio Fellow Ana Đorđević On 2 December 2022, the Faculty of Chemistry of the University of Belgrade (Serbia), hosted a lecture concerning open science and preprints. The event was supported by ASAPbio and aimed to raise awareness around preprints and their place within open science among the local Serbian researchers, and to encourage this community to post preprints for their research works.

Flowchart illustrating the Interactive Public Peer Review process for Biogeosciences by EGU. It shows stages like submission, access review, technical corrections, comments, and final revised paper. Includes roles of referees, editors, and community.

How journals are innovating in peer review through preprints

Preprints are increasingly becoming a tool to support the peer-review process and aid rapid dissemination of research results. The increased transparency in the review process that preprints can support has been welcomed by many journals with many pivoting to an environment of supporting preprints.

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Preprints, reproducibility and integrity in publications

There has been much debate for over a decade about reproducibility in science (Ioannidis). By “reproducibility”, we mean the ability of a scientist to reproduce their own results or others scientists’ published work.

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Preprints: untapped potential to share non-traditional results

Preprints provide an outlet for sharing scientific results outside of the traditional peer review and journal publication process – not only can researchers post their manuscript early before going through peer review, but they can also post work t... But are researchers taking advantage of opportunities to share nontraditional results, and what are opportunities for the future?

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Why do journals engage with preprints? We talked to editors and this is what they told us

Throughout the year, groups of researchers, librarians, and other scholars are not only learning more about preprints but also unearthing various outlooks towards preprints through the ASAPbio Fellows program. As part of our activities in the program, some of us are interested in discovering the various perspectives that journal editors have on preprints.

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