Blog Category: Preprints

ASAPbio got its start with a meeting of 70 supporters, convened in February 2016 at the HHMI headquarters. We were then incorporated as a nonprofit in California the following January (2017).

Contributors: Felipe Del Valle Batalla, Barakat Mohazab, Akanksha Gupta, Kendra Parson, Emiliya Taskova Aims of the Project In this project, we set out to examine how large language models (LLMs) handle, interpret, and communicate information from pr... By posing identical questions and prompts across multiple AI tools and systematically testing paired preprints and published papers, we aimed to assess differences in accuracy, framing, and signals of reliability.

The Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) is requiring its scientists to post their research articles as preprints under an open license that allows unrestricted reuse (CC-BY-4.0). Optional immediately and fully effective January 1, 2026, most HHMI labs will be affected by the policy, including HHMI Investigators, Freeman Hrabowski Scholars, and scientists at the Janelia Research Campus, when a lab member is first, last, or cor...

By Katie Corker (ASAPbio) and Ludo Waltman (Centre for Science and Technology Studies, Leiden University)Each year, more research papers are published as preprints. However, this growth is occurring when the number of journal articles is also rapidly increasing.

The best tool for tracking the quantity of preprints in the life sciences is Europe PMC, an open database that allows discovery of over 925,000 preprints. Europe PMC indexes metadata (such as title, abstract, authors) for 34 different preprint servers, as well as full text for a subset of servers.   Europe PMC also displays a data dashboard, updated monthly, depicting the overall volume of pr...