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 of the scholarly communication infrastructure. There are now over 50 preprint servers for the biomedical community, many of which—including the largest by monthly volume, Research […]

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 dangers to preprint commenting and highlighting of research misconduct. As preprint reviewing and commenting increasingly drives the push towards transparency, these topics become ever more […]

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. As preprint reviewing and commenting increasingly drives the push towards transparency, these topics become ever more important. We heard from Lonni Besancon who has conducted multiple meta-research […]

At our first Community call of 2024, on 24 Jan, we will discuss the linking of preprints to other outputs. The research community produces multiple outputs relating to any individual research project including data sets, methodologies and protocols, peer reviews, outreach or media and more. Linking these many outputs to the preprint is very important […]

At our next Community call, on 19 March 2024, we will discuss the globalization of preprints. The adoption of preprints varies greatly across geographical regions, with many of the efforts to drive adoption originating from the US and Western EU. However, this approach often neglects the opinions and needs of others. In this community call […]

At our next Community call, on 19 March 2024, we will discuss the globalization of preprints. The adoption of preprints varies greatly across geographical regions, with many of the efforts to drive adoption originating from the US and Western EU. However, this approach often neglects the opinions and needs of others. In this community call […]

At our next Community call, on 22 May 2024, we will discuss the use of AI in publishing and preprints. The rise of AI represents a global challenge for all aspects of life. In academia, AI promises to revolutionize scientific publishing and yet presents major problems for publishers and researchers. On the one hand, preprint […]

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. In recent years, science has been experiencing a crisis in trust, with record numbers of retractions, news reports of fraudulent studies, lawsuits against scientists correcting […]

Preprints and the wider open science landscape has made great strides over the past decade. Preprint adoption has grown to 12% of the biomedical literature and preprint peer review is on the rise. Institutions and funders are increasingly recognising and supporting preprints. However, this is only the situation in the Global North. In the Global […]

In January 2025 the new Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation open access policy will go into effect. This policy mandates preprints for all grantees, encourages preprint peer review and removes funding for APC’s. Join us as we host Ashley Farley for a Q&A on the new policy. November 6th 2024. 5pm UK/Noon EST/9am PST Register here

To kick off 2025, we at ASAPbio held our January community call on the topic of what’s next for ASAPbio’s strategic direction. If you weren’t able to make it, you can watch the recording (below). What follows is a brief summary of what you should expect to see soon from us. https://youtu.be/unxK1JoNHdc Read more in […]

In this community call, we focus on institutional recognition of preprints, a key barrier for wider preprint adoption. We will hear from Michael Dougherty (University of Maryland) who is representing HELIOS (Higher Education Leadership Initiative for Open Scholarship) to discuss the importance of working directly with departments to bring about change. We will also hear […]

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 non-profit overseeing the two preprint servers. There will be a strong Q&A component so bring along your questions! Brief schedule: An update on bioRxiv and […]