Welcome to the new ASAPbio website! See what’s on the roadmap for 2025.
In 2025, ASAPbio launched a new initiative to create 4 Special Interest Groups (SIGs). These SIGs bring together our community into collaborative focus areas.
Each SIG designs their own goals and roadmap and are chaired by either community members or ASAPbio staff. The SIGs will launch in Summer 2025 and you can express interest here.
Why should you join a SIG?
- Collaborate on a specific focus area of interest to you
- Network with a variety of stakeholders in academia and the open science community
- Contribute to advancing the adoption and utility of preprints
- Gain transferable skills and leadership opportunities
Reinforcing the potential of preprints and expanding preprint adoption
This SIG is focused on reinforcing standalone preprints and expanding the adoption of preprinting. The SIG may design materials around when to post a preprint, the benefits of preprinting prior to journal submission, or other activities that support preprint adoption independent of peer review.
The role of preprints in improving trust and integrity
This SIG is focused on the role that preprints play in improving trust and integrity in research. This SIG may initiate communication efforts to show how preprints improve trust in research outputs. It may develop materials and workflows to improve the trust signals associated with preprints.
Preprints in the Global South
This SIG is focused on increasing the awareness and adoption of preprints in the Global South. The Global South lags behind the USA and Western Europe in the adoption and use of preprints. This SIG may design communication materials and campaigns.
Institutional recognition of preprints
This SIG is focused on increasing the institutional recognition of preprints in hiring and promotion practices. This SIG may design policies that can be adopted by institutions or campaign to encourage institutions to adopt preprint-specific policies.