Updates and announcements from ASAPbio
We’re thrilled to announce four new members of the ASAPbio Board of Directors: Gautam Dey, Carole Lee, Kleber Neves and Ludo Waltman. These appointments allow the Board to incorporate new perspectives from researchers in a wide range of disciplines including meta-research and also broaden the geographical representation in our Board. Gautam Dey orcid.org/0000-0003-1416-6223 Gautam is…
Today, we’re excited to launch Publish Your Reviews, an initiative encouraging reviewers to post their comments alongside the preprint versions of articles. We invite all researchers interested in promoting more open dialog around preprints to sign the following pledge: When a journal invites me to review an article that is available as a preprint, I…
In line with our mission to accelerate research communication, we believe that preprints can provide a valuable tool to accelerate research if used to share ongoing or preliminary work well in advance of journal submission. To inform how we can best support early sharing of preprints and understand what concerns may arise about this practice,…
In a major step toward promoting preprint peer review as a means of increasing transparency and efficiency in scientific publishing, Review Commons is updating its policy: as of 1 June 2022, peer reviews and the authors’ response will be posted by Review Commons to bioRxiv or medRxiv when authors transfer their refereed preprint to the first affiliate journal. By Thomas…
Following our successful trial last year, we are thrilled to announce that ASAPbio will pursue crowd preprint review activities in 2022. Join us in supporting public feedback on preprints by becoming a crowd preprint reviewer! We are expanding the activities to include different disciplines. In addition, we are delighted to collaborate with SciELO Preprints to…
Inspiring others to think about, consider, and use preprints requires not only passionate champions, but also resources to help them create successful events and projects. For this reason, we at ASAPbio want to support members of our community in spreading the word about preprints in original and inventive ways. To do so, we’ve launched ASAPbio…
ASAPbio is seeking several new members for our Board of Directors to support our mission to drive positive change in science communication and to broaden our geographic representation. We are looking for new Board members who can help us deliver on our strategic goals and complement the perspectives of existing Board members. We particularly seek…
We’re delighted to announce that we will be continuing our work on preprints and open peer review through 2024 with a combined $250,000 per year in funding committed from the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative (CZI), Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI), and the Simons Foundation. This generous support will sustain ASAPbio’s mission to accelerate discovery in the…
2022-05 update: this posting is closed. ASAPbio is seeking a part-time Communications Assistant to help us share our work on preprints & open peer review with the life sciences community. This position provides an opportunity to engage with open science and build communication skills; it might be especially well-suited for students or postdocs. The role…
During the pandemic, research communication and progress has accelerated through the massively increased posting of preprints. The increased use of preprints is a positive development, however, most preprints still take the form of traditional research papers posted shortly before or in parallel to their submission to a journal. As a result, preprints generally appear 4…
We’re thrilled to open applications for the 2022 ASAPbio Fellows program. Interested in a deep dive into the preprint landscape? Seeking to drive forward your own preprint initiative? Then join our Fellows program! The ASAPbio Fellows program aims to provide participants with resources, tools and contacts to allow them to drive discussions about the productive…
This post originally appeared on ReimagineReview. Preprint reviews hold the potential to build trust in preprints and drive innovation in peer review. However, the variety of platforms available to contribute comments and reviews on preprints means that it can be difficult for readers to gain a clear picture of the process that led to the…
As open scholarship practices grow, dedicated preprint servers are springing up in many disciplines. However, researchers are also depositing preprints in other platforms, including institutional and generalist repositories. These destinations can be familiar to researchers and well-integrated into the scholarly communications infrastructure, but many do not presently offer the same preprint-related features found in purpose-built…
Post by Sandra Franco Iborra and Iratxe Puebla While preprints have been adopted as a means to promptly disseminate research, they also open up new ways to participate in the scientific discourse around the latest research. There are many benefits to public feedback on preprints: comments that can help authors improve their work, broader opportunities…
Traditional peer review relies on a couple of individuals spending hours on a paper. What if the wisdom of the crowd could get it done much faster? And would this work for the public review of preprints? In order to find out, in autumn of 2021 we coordinated the crowd preprint review trial announced at…
Tuesday, January 11, 2022 – 9am PT, 12pm ET, 5pm UTC (see in your time zone) – Register here Wednesday, January 12, 2022 – 6am PT, 9pm ET, 2pm UTC (see in your time zone) – Register here Feedback on preprints doesn’t have to take the shape of a journal-style review. Short comments or questions…
Post by Iratxe Puebla, Associate Director, ASAPbio We are at the end of 2021, a good time to reflect on the accomplishments and lessons of the year. One of the highlights for me has been, without a doubt, our fantastic group of 2021 ASAPbio Fellows. Following the success of the Fellows program last year, we…
We are pleased to announce the winners of the first ASAPbio preprint communication competition, which aimed to communicate to a wide audience the value proposition of preprints as a tool for research communication. Preprints played a crucial role during the COVID-19 pandemic, speeding up the dissemination of scientific findings that led to a quicker understanding…
ASAPbio’s Preprint Reviewer Recruitment Network aims to help researchers, especially ECRs, break into reviewing or editing roles by sharing their comments and reviews of preprints as examples of their work. Comments and feedback to preprints can occur in many forms. We are partnering with PREreview to host a live-streamed preprint journal club, an opportunity for…
View COAR’s post about preliminary results from a COAR and ASAPbio survey of preprints in institutional and generalist repositories [External link]