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Scientific Society Preprint Town Hall (2017)
February 23, 2017
The ASAPbio Scientific Society Preprint Town Hall was held on Thursday, February 23, 2017 at the National Academy of Sciences Building in Washington DC (2101 Constitution Avenue, N.W., Washington, DC).
Scientific societies have long served researchers by providing them with opportunities to share unpublished data through poster and oral presentations at meetings. Today’s technology enables this sharing to flourish in the digital space as well as the physical.
The meeting featured scientist, funder, and society perspectives on preprints in the life sciences and details about the development of a next-generation preprint ecosystem. We also hoped to catalyze a discussion on how preprints can benefit scientific societies in the future.
Agenda (with links to video)
| 9:00am | Welcome and scientists’ perspective – Ron Vale (UCSF), Cynthia Wolberger (JHMI), Jessica Polka (ASAPbio) (download slides) |
| 9:50am | Funder perspective – Neil Thakur (NIH) (download slides) |
| 10:20am | Coffee and refreshment break |
| 10:40am | Remarks by Patricia Flatley Brennan (NIH/NLM) |
| 10:50am | Next generation preprint service – Phil Bourne (NIH) via video conference (download slides) |
| 11:20am | Societies innovating with publishing and preprints (panel) – Erika Shugart (ASCB), Stefano Bertuzzi (ASM) (view presentation), Darla Henderson (ACS) |
| 12:00pm | Discussion |
| 12:45pm | Adjourn |
Attendees (includes video conference participants)
- Blythe Alexander, Society for Neuroscience
- Elizabeth Austin, American Association of Anatomists
- Christina Bennett, American Physiological Society
- Stefano Bertuzzi, ASM
- Phil Bourne, NIH
- Patricia Brennan, NIH/NLM
- Janine Chiappa, McKenna American Anthropological Association
- Kara Coleman, The Pew Charitable Trusts
- Benjamin Corb, ASBMB
- Sara Cullinan, American Society of Human Genetics
- Richard Dodenhoff, American Society for Pharmacology & Experimental Therapeutics
- Sindy Escobar Alvarez, Doris Duke Charitable Foundation
- Jessica Foley, Focused Ultrasound Foundation
- Maryrose Franko, Health Research Alliance
- Michele Garfinkel, EMBO
- Catherine Giffi, Wiley
- Judy Glaven, HHMI
- Barbara Goldman, American Society for Microbiology
- Brooks Hanson, American Geophysical Union
- Darla Henderson, ACS
- Jennifer Holland, Histochemical Society
- Jessica Homa, Society for Experimental Biology and Medicine
- Barbara Jasny, AAAS/Science
- Rachael Lallensack, AAAS/Science
- Thomas Lemberger, EMBO
- Daniel Levin, International Association for the Study of Pain
- Patti Lockhart, ASPB
- Marsha Lucas, Society for Developmental Biology
- David Malakoff, AAAS/Science
- Joseph McInerney, American Society of Human Genetics
- Marcia McNutt, NAS
- David Nelson, American Society of Human Genetics
- Rebecca Osthus, American Physiological Society
- Jennifer Pesanelli, FASEB
- Meagan Phelan, AAAS/Science
- Chris Pickett, Rescuing Biomedical Research
- Jessica Polka, ASAPbio
- Claire Rawlinson, BMJ
- John Sack, HighWire Press
- Daniel Salsbury, PNAS
- Rita Scheman, The American Physiological Society
- Yvette Seger, Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology (FASEB)
- Nick Shockey, SPARC
- Erika Shugart, American Society for Cell Biology
- Diane Sullenberger, PNAS
- Neil Thakur, NIH
- Ron Vale, UCSF
- Kevin Wilson, ASCB/CLS
- Nancy Winchester, ASPB
- Cynthia Wolberger, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine