Evolving Preprint Ecosystem (2017)

This meeting was held at the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in Cambridge, MA on Wednesday, July 19, 2017 from 10:30am – 5:30pm EDT. It was live-streamed.

The preprint ecosystem is growing rapidly. The CZI/bioRxiv partnership will fuel the expansion of the leading preprint server in the life sciences. Many other servers and platforms exist or are planned, with varying degrees of disciplinary overlap (arXiv, PeerJ Preprints, preprints.org, OSF Preprints, ChemRxiv, SSRN, SciELO, PsyArxiv, EngArXiv, SocArXiv, Authorea, F1000Research, etc). Funding agencies are enacting policies supporting preprints, such as those developed by the Wellcome Trust and the Medical Research Council, while agencies like the NIH have gone a step further and developed guidelines for selecting a preprint server. Furthermore, the integration of preprints into the research culture will open doors for the publication of other types of interim research products such as theses, hypotheses, protocols, single-figure publications, data papers, software papers, etc.

The goal of this meeting is to identify any gaps/opportunities in the preprint ecosystem, which in turn will help to inform the revision of ASAPbio’s plans before the close of our RFA suspension.

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Agenda

Wednesday, July 19 – All times EDT

10:15    Arrivals and coffee
10:30    Welcome & goals of the meeting – Ron Vale and Jessica Polka (slides)
10:40    Welcome to the American Academy – John Randell
10:50    Overview of planned CZI-bioRxiv developments
Jeremy Freeman, John Inglis, Richard Sever
Questions (5 min)
11:15    Other planned preprint developments (10 min each, max)
PLOS – Louise Page (slides)
SciELO – Abel Packer (slides)
bioRN – Gregg Gordon
COS – Brian Nosek (slides)
Preprints.org – Martyn Rittman
Others (from the floor)
12:00    Lunch
12:30    Open discussion on the preprint ecosystem and infrastructure needs
              Moderated by Robert Kiley
Jeremy Freeman (verbal remarks)
Phil Bourne (slides)
13:30    Existing funder recommendations – Moderated by Ron Vale
Neil Thakur (slides)
Discussion on additional recommendations/standards
14:30    Approaches to reinforcing standards/best practices
Moderated by Jessica Polka (5 min each)
Agreement among community of servers – Oya Rieger (slides)
Whitelist/consumer reports – Carly Strasser
Search tool indexing compliant servers – Jo McEntyre (slides)
Educational module – Jeff Spies (verbal remarks)
Discussion
15:45    Coffee break
16:00    Services to support preprints, such as manuscript screening and conversion
Moderated by Ron Vale and Jessica Polka
16:45    Concluding thoughts from around the room – comments from participants
17:30    Adjourn

Attendee list

• Jordan Anaya*, prepubmed.org
• Adriana Bankston*, Future of Research
• Jason Barkeloo, *Open Therapeutics
• Ivan Baxter, *Danforth Center
• Peter Binfield, *PeerJ
• Phil Bourne*, UVA
• Daniel Colón-Ramos, Yale, ASAPbio
• Megan Deichler, The Helmsley Charitable Trust
• Jeremy Freeman, CZI
• Matt Garcia*, CIHR
• Michele Garfinkel*, EMBO
• Paul Ginsparg*, arXiv
• Gregg Gordon, SSRN
• Josh Greenberg*, Sloan Foundation
• Casey Greene*, University of Pennsylvania
• Darla Henderson, ChemRxiv
• Sam Hindle*, UCSF
• John Inglis, bioRxiv
• Evelyn Jabri, E&A Innovation Group
• Robert Kiley, Wellcome Trust
• Danny Kingsley*, University of Cambridge
• Sam Klein, Underlay
• Emilie Marcus, Sneak Peek
• AlfonsoMartinez Arias*, University of Cambridge
• Jo McEntyre, EBI
• Colten Noakes, Focused Ultrasound Foundation
• Brian Nosek, COS
• Abel Packer, SciELO
• Louise Page, PLOS
• Tony Peatfield, MRC
• Alberto Pepe, Authorea
• Chris Percopo*, Helmsley Trust
• Kate Perry, Wiley
• Jessica Polka, ASAPbio
• Oya Rieger*, arXiv
• Martyn Rittman*, MDPI
• Steve Royle*, University of Warwick
• John Sack*, Highwire
• Daniela Saderi*, OHSU
• Richard Sever, bioRxiv
• Jeff Spies, COS
• John Spiro, Simons Foundation
• Bodo Stern, HHMI
• Carly Strasser, Moore Foundation
• Neil Thakur, NIH
• Todd Toler, Wiley
• Ron ValeUCSF, ASAPbio
• Dan Valen, figshare
• Emily White, Focused Ultrasound Foundation

*by video conference