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Announcing Preprint Launch Parties during Cell Bio 2023 (Boston December 2-6)

These events have now been announced! See details and sign up to attend Network with colleagues in your subfield attending Cell Bio 2023 while celebrating the release of the latest papers at Preprint Launch Parties, a series of events ASAPbio will host in Boston from December 2-6. ...

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Crowd preprint review is back! Sign up to participate in one of several groups led by ASAPbio Fellows

Interested in honing your peer review skills while providing valuable feedback to preprint authors? Then join one of our preprint review crowds! Following our two previous cycles of preprint review activities, we are thrilled to announce that ASAPbio will host more crowd preprint review activities in 2023.

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Preprint Review

Walking the walk: open communication and review in a congress on open science

The first Iberoamerican Congress for Open Science took place on 23-24 November 2022, as a forum for Iberoamerican dialogue on the right to science and to promote change in how we understand science, from an inclusive, open, participatory, and respons... As part of the congress, participants were invited to submit applications for works on open science, and the event’s academic committee considered how to handle these submissions.

A graphic titled Crowd preprint review includes a small image of a document, six diverse avatars, and a bar chart. The chart shows the importance of review elements: anonymity, choice of comment, and credit, based on a survey of 59 participants.

ASAPbio crowd preprint review 2.0 – highlights from our 2022 activities to collaboratively develop public preprint reviews

Last year we ran a trial where we experimented with translating the crowd review model pioneered by the journal Synlett to preprints, and we coordinated activities to develop public reviews on cell biology preprints. The activities resulted in sign up by over 100 researchers, and in 14 public preprint reviews developed through comments contributed by 31 crowd members.

Webinar announcement titled Why Publish Your Reviews? scheduled for 4pm UTC, July 19, 2022, on Zoom. Features speakers Ashley Farley, Alex Mendonça, Ludo Waltman, and Prachee Avasthi against a keyboard background.

Three takeaways from our July 19 Publish Your Reviews event

What are the benefits of open peer reviews on preprints, and why should researchers consider publishing their journal-invited reviews alongside preprints? To answer these questions, ASAPbio Fellows Bianca Trovò, Nicolás Hinrichs, Saeed Shafiei Sabet, and Susana Henriques organized an interactive conversation about the recently-launched Publish Your Reviews initiative on July 19, 2022. We heard ...

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Supporting public preprint review through collaborative reviews – an update on ASAPbio’s crowd preprint review

At ASAPbio we believe that there are many benefits to public preprint feedback: comments that can help authors improve their work, opportunities for early career researchers to develop review skills, and further context for non-specialized readers, a... Since last year, we have been supporting this important activity by coordinating public reviews on preprints developed collaboratively by community members. Through our crowd preprint review activities we seek to draw on the collective input of...

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