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ASAPbio is a dynamic community of scientists and researchers distributed all around the world, ranging from early grad students to veteran PIs to industry scientists, journal publishers, and more.

Representing diverse backgrounds, subdisciplines, and geographic locations, our community is united by a simple core belief:

Scientific knowledge should be shared rapidly, openly, and collaboratively.

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Why join the ASAPbio community?

Connect with like-minded peers and colleagues around the world

Stay updated on trends in life science research & communication

Make a meaningful contribution to open science in your own community

Be mentored (or become a mentor!) in open publishing and peer review

Build transferable skills in presentation, project development & more

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To become a member, there are no dues and no official requirements beyond sharing ASAPbio’s core values and respecting our community guidelines.

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Multiple pathways to suit your goals

Participate as much or as little as fits your current workload, interests, and research goals.

Those with a casual interest or limited time may enjoy our bimonthly community calls, our regular email newsletters, and our active Slack channel.

For those seeking a more in-depth learning or leadership opportunity, we offer many members-only community initiatives:

Flowchart illustrating ASAPbios community pathways. Includes Fellows program, Culture & community track, Project track, Residency program, Community projects, Special Interest Groups, and Crowd Preprint Review. Color-coded with key for clarity.

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What our community members say

Antonio J. Giraldez
"Instant gratification of helping the community"

“The main aspect of the online submission at bioRxiv was the instant gratification of helping the community and getting feedback from our colleagues in other fields where our data is helpful, saving others precious time and even moving forward experiments in other systems, in addition to having our paper public in less than 48 hours without the disappointment or frustration that the review process sometimes carries.”

Antonio J. Giraldez
Chair and Professor of Genetics Yale University School of Medicine
Lena Lampe
"I want to be part of change."

“I, and also my PI, wanted to support open access and a vital, interacting research community.”

Lena Lampe
Former PhD student, MPI
Jeffrey Woodruff
"My preprint got me a faculty job."

“My preprint was the deciding factor when the UT Southwestern hiring committee was deciding whether to give me an interview or not. Once they saw my latest paper on bioRxiv, then they gave me the invitation. I’ll be starting as an Assistant Professor in January.”

Jeffrey Woodruff
Postdoc, MPI-CBG
"The ASAPbio Fellows program was a life-changing experience."

“It has definitely made a significant mark on my open science advocacy journey. I will be forever grateful for the ASAPbio team, namely Jonny Coates, for their tremendous effort and support during the program. I hope my journey with ASAPbio doesn’t stop by the end of the program but extends to a lifelong partnership.”

2024 ASAPbio Fellow
"The ASAPbio Fellows program has been a wonderful networking experience."

“The program connects people that are passionate about raising awareness for preprints. The program deepened my knowledge on the history of preprints, available preprint servers and ways how preprints may facilitate scientific exchange. I am eager to engage more in preprint advocacy in the future, by applying some of the tips and tricks I learned during the ASAPbio Fellows Program.”

2023 ASAPbio Fellow

Explore our past community calls

See what ASAPbio is all about by watching recordings of our previous community calls and exploring the related documentation.

OpenRxiv and a preprint progress update with Richard Sever

In this session, Richard Sever will give an update on the amazing progress that bioRxiv and medRxiv have made in recent years and will overview and discuss OpenRxiv, the new […]
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Institutional recognition of preprints

In this community call, we focus on institutional recognition of preprints, a key barrier for wider preprint adoption.
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Our new strategic direction from 2025

To kick off 2025, we at ASAPbio held our January community call on the topic of what’s next for ASAPbio’s strategic direction.
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The new Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation OA policy; a Q&A with Ashley Farley

In January 2025 the new Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation open access policy will go into effect.
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ASAPbio Community Call: Preprints & the Global South

Preprints and the wider open science landscape has made great strides over the past decade.
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July 2024 Community Call – Research integrity, trust markers & forensic scientometrics with Dr Leslie McIntosh

At our next Community call, on 17 July 2024, we will discuss the importance of trust markers and research integrity in addition to the newly proposed field of forensic scientometrics.
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May 2024 Community Call – AI in preprints and publishing with Josh Nicholson

At our next Community call, on 22 May 2024, we will discuss the use of AI in publishing and preprints.
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Preprints across the globe; landscapes, perceptions and challenges with Ludo Waltman

At our next Community call, on 19 March 2024, we will discuss the globalization of preprints.
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Preprints across the globe; landscapes, perceptions and challenges with Ludo Waltman

At our next Community call, on 19 March 2024, we will discuss the globalization of preprints.
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January 2024 Community Call – Connecting the dots – linking preprints to other outputs with Martyn Rittman

At our first Community call of 2024, on 24 Jan, we will discuss the linking of preprints to other outputs.
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The trials and tribulations of post publication peer review

At our Community call on 20 November 2023, we hosted a discussion on the recent high-profile examples of the dangers to preprint commenting and highlighting of research misconduct.
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November 2023 Community Call – The trials and tribulations of post publication peer review

20 November 2023 at 11am EST/8am PST/4pm GMT/5pm CET At our next Community call on 20 November 2023, we will host a discussion on the recent high-profile examples of the […]
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Community and commercialization in biomedical preprint servers

27th October 2023 8.00-9.30am PST / 11.00-12.30 EST / 4.00-5.30pm UK This year’s open access week theme, “Community over Commercialization,” is relevant to not only journals but also other parts […]
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Perspectives on preprint peer review models

Preprint peer review services have substantially increased in recent years.
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September 2023 Community Call – Perspectives on preprint peer review models

18 September 2023 at 8am San Francisco / 11am New York / 3pm UTC / 4pm London / 5pm Berlin / 8:30pm Mumbai At our next Community call on 18 […]
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Driving recognition of preprints in research assessment

The recognition of preprints by publishers has been a significant step in preprints becoming common usage in the life sciences.
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May community call: Learning from community preprint adoption in the social sciences

Tuesday, May 30, 9am San Francisco / 12pm New York / 4pm UTC / 5pm London / 6pm Berlin / 9:30pm Mumbai Compared to other disciplines, biologists are preprint novices.
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ASAPbio – SciELO 25 Years Seminar

Preprints promote the rapid and open sharing of research, typically prior to formal peer review.
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ASAPbio’s NIH RFI information session and response workshop

The US NIH has released a Request for Information (RFI) about its proposed public access policy (https://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/notice-files/NOT-OD-23-091.html).
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Spotlight on preprint community projects

The passion and ingenuity of the ASAPbio Community members has been critical in driving awareness and adoption of preprints across the life sciences.
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March Community Call – Spotlight on preprint community projects

The passion and ingenuity of our community members has been critical in driving awareness and adoption of preprints across the life sciences.
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Preprints in Japan and China: perspectives from Jxiv and Sciencepaper Online

The popularity and acceptance of preprints vary among scientific disciplines and geographical regions.
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January Community Call – Preprints in Japan and China: perspectives from Jxiv and Sciencepaper Online

The popularity and acceptance of preprints vary among scientific disciplines and geographical regions.
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Promoting equity in visibility, curation and evaluation of preprints

Preprints are freely accessible, but there are persistent disparities in the visibility and attention paid to preprints according to the authors’ institutions, geographical area, language and other backgrounds.
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Preprints in Progress

At our Community call in June, we explored how we can expand the use of preprints beyond the deposition of papers ready for journal submission.
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Data sharing with preprints – where do we stand and where next?

At our March Community call , we discussed data sharing with preprints.
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Posting journal-solicited reviews on preprints

Publish Your Reviews is an initiative emerging from the July 2021 #FeedbackASAP meeting that encourages researchers to post journal-commissioned reviews publicly as comments on preprints whenever the reviewed article is available as […]
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Understanding geographical disparities in preprint trends

While the use of preprints in the life sciences is increasing, disparities in adoption remain.
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Bringing culture change to science communication

Preprints are often discussed in the context of broader culture change in science communication.
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‘Why do some researchers have reservations about preprints? Let’s ask them’

While the use of preprints in the life sciences is increasing, some researchers have concerns about posting their own work to a preprint server or more generally about the use […]
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ASAPbio strategic direction & plans for 2021

At our January 2021 Community Call, we will provide an overview of our vision and strategic goals.
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‘Preprint journal clubs – the nuts and bolts’

This Community Call covered preprint journal clubs.
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