An article by Kendall Powell entitled “Does it take too long to publish research?” appears in the February 11, 2016 issue of Nature. ASAPbio attendees (including Leslie Vosshall and Maria Leptin) and organizer Ron Vale are quoted, and the meeting is mentioned:
This month, a group of more than 70 scientists, funders, journal editors and publishers are meeting at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute campus in Chevy Chase, Maryland, to discuss whether biologists should adopt the preprint model to accelerate publishing. “We need a fundamental rethinking of how we do this,” Vosshall says.