PLOS links to preprint versions of published articles

The April Community Call discussion focused on the past, present, and future of bioRxiv, medRxiv, and openRxiv. We were joined by Richard Sever, co-founder of bioRxiv and medRxiv and CSSO at openRxiv, preprint servers focusing on biology and biomedical science, which started at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory.  Richard summarized the past 12 years of those ...

Our Community Call on March 26, 2025, focused on the topic of institutional recognition of preprints, which is one of the key barriers to the broader adoption of preprints. Our first speaker, Michael Dougherty, Professor and Department Chair of Psychology at the College of Behavioral and Social Sciences, University of Maryland, represented HELIOS (Higher Education Leadership Initiative for Open Scholarship).

A recent ASAPbio Community Call (February 26, 2025) was inspired by a preprint titled ‘Mapping the preprint review metadata transfer workflows.’ The preprint is a working group product borne out of the, ‘Supporting interoperability of preprint ... Maria presented first, defining preprint review metadata as “all kinds of information about the review record,” e.g., reviewer name, affiliation, link to preprint being reviewed, review outcome, assigned score, and more.