FY 2023 Report

Major activities

1. Support culture change through community programs and outreach

ASAPbio completed the initiatives below to raise awareness of preprints across diverse communities:

• Completed a fourth cohort of the Fellows program, with 37 fellows (18 from South America, Asia, and Africa) completing 5 projects
• Launched the Local Hubs program, supporting in-person events run by community members in Lisbon (Portugal), São Paulo (Brazil) and Pretoria (South Africa).
• Hosted 3 workshops for Indian researchers in partnership with India Biosciences

2. Promote constructive preprint review

ASAPbio promoted adoption of preprint review via activities involving different stakeholders:

• Continued the crowd preprint review framework and completed a third cycle of activities with 4 Fellow-led crowds and 36 public preprint reviews posted
• Collaborated with Europe PMC to host a workshop on Supporting interoperability of preprint peer review metadata
• Disseminated a meeting report and call to action from Recognizing Preprint Peer Review
• Held events at the Protein Society and Cell Bio conferences to promote conversations about preprint review

3. Expand the usage of preprints to share science earlier

ASAPbio undertook projects to encourage the use of preprints to share work beyond the journal article:

• Posted a preprint in progress, authored by ASAPbio Fellows, about categorizing preprints in progress
• Announced the winners of a competition to showcase the use of preprints to share negative results.

In addition to these activities, we engaged in advocacy to support the US federal public access & open science policy, the “no pay” model, and community engagement with cOAlition S.

How funding was spent

In 2023, ASAPbio received $250k in contributions ($100,000 from CZI, $100,000 from HHMI, and $50,000 from the Simons Foundation) as well as contracts/earned income and honoraria ($3,900 from HHMI, and $2,187.50 from Astera). The shortfall in the 2023 budget is covered by reserves.