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.
Today, we’re thrilled to announce the ASAPbio Fellow program – a six-month program structured to provide participants with tools and skills to drive discussions about the productive use of preprints in the life sciences, and to become ASAPbio representatives at their institutions or scientific conferences.
New on the blog
New resource: a directory preprint server policies and practices
ASAPbio’s response to the OSTP RFI on public access
The state of preprinting in biomedical sciences
Discouraging citations to predatory journals could be counterproductive
News from around the web
Publishers launch COVID-19 “rapid reviewer” list; encourage review transfer and highlighting preprints (2020-04-27)
PLOS Biology launches linked articles (2020-04-14)
SciELO preprints launches (2020-04-07)
Fast Grants for COVID-19 science require preprinting (2020-04-07)
(Header photo from Review Commons community call)
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