Updates and announcements from ASAPbio
Dear ASAPbio subscriber, Last week, we announced the ASAPbio Funders’ Workshop, a small meeting to be held at NIH on May 24th to coordinate support among private and public funding agencies for preprints in biology. Representatives from existing preprint servers will attend, as will some junior and senior scientists. To ensure that the voice of…
On May 24th, 2016, representatives of funding agencies and existing preprint servers as well as junior and senior scientists will meet at the NIH to coordinate their efforts in providing a preprint service for the biology community. The attendees of this small workshop are listed below. — ASAPbio organizers ASAPbio Funders’ Workshop attendees Needhi Bhalla UC Santa Cruz…
We are writing to inform you about some developments since the first ASAPbio meeting at the HHMI in February. This meeting, which was attended by a diverse group of individuals representing many institutions and followed by a sizable online audience, had an intended goal of learning whether there is increased interest and greater support for…
Thanks for subscribing to ASAPbio’s newsletter! As part of the followup to last month’s productive meeting, ASAPbio organizers and attendees have been working to spread discussions about preprints to the broader community. Recent articles at Wired, NYTimes, and The Economist have certainly moved the needle in this regard! Please help keep the conversation going by…
Harlan Krumholz, Harold H. Hines Jr. Professor of Medicine at Yale School of Medicine and ASAPbio attendee, is the author of a recent article in NPR entitled “Academic Medical Centers Get An F In Sharing Research Results.” You can watch his 5-minute talk at ASAPbio on preprints and data sharing here.
An article by Kendall Powell entitled “Does it take too long to publish research?” appears in the February 11, 2016 issue of Nature. ASAPbio attendees (including Leslie Vosshall and Maria Leptin) and organizer Ron Vale are quoted, and the meeting is mentioned: This month, a group of more than 70 scientists, funders, journal editors and publishers are meeting…
Following discussions with several funder and journal colleagues, we believe that it would be extremely powerful and timely to publish a short joint statement emphasising our commitment to ensure that results and data relevant to the current Zika crisis and future public health emergencies should be made as available as rapidly and openly as possible.…
Most scientists agree that the research in biology could be accelerated and improved if scientific publishing was made easier, faster, and more transparent. On February 16th and 17th, ~70 members of the science community, young and old, leaders and trainees, and representatives of journals, scientific societies, academic institutions, and funding agencies, will convene at the…