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Newsletter vol 22: Now launching the ASAPbio Fellows program

Newsletter vol 22: Now launching the ASAPbio Fellows program

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.

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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)

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