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.

Preprints are increasingly used for the dissemination of research, however, most preprints still take the form of traditional research papers posted shortly before submission to a journal.

ASAPbio believes that we can accelerate research by substantially expanding the use of preprints to report a wide range of outputs: early-stage results from a small set of experiments, negative or inconclusive findings , confirmatory results, and much more. At the Community Call, we covered:

• ASAPbio’s vision and plans for our ‘Preprints in progress’ project that seeks to expand the use of preprints.
• Alexandra Navarro from the Whitehead Institute (MIT, US) spoke about her experience with the preprint she posted to share early results from her project, and which she has been shaping over the last year based on community feedback.