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ASAPbio April Community Call: A discussion on openRxiv with Richard Sever

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 ...
May 15, 2025

ASAPbio March Community Call: Institutional Recognition of Preprints

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).
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ASAPbio February Community Call: Six ways to share preprint reviews

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.
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Recent Drop in Life Science Preprint Posting Due to Capacity Problems at Research Square

The best tool for tracking the quantity of preprints in the life sciences is Europe PMC, an open database that allows discovery of over 925,000 preprints. Europe PMC indexes metadata (such as title, abstract, authors) for 34 different preprint servers, as well as full text for a subset of servers.   Europe PMC also displays a data dashboard, updated monthly, depicting the overall volume of pr...
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Life Science Research Funders Should Recommend or Require CC-BY Licenses for the Research They Fund

As stewards of the funds they award, life science research funders are eager to maximize the value of their grants. One low-cost way to do so is to recommend – or better yet require – grantees to publish the outputs of their research (including preprints) using Creative Commons attribution, or CC-BY, licenses.
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2024 in Review: Empowering open science through the Review and Curate Network

Guest post written by Roseline Dzekem Dine (2023 ASAPbio Fellow) 2024 was transformative for the Review and Curate Network, as we championed open science, preprint sharing, and collaborative peer review in Rwanda and across Africa. This year, we launched impactful programs and saw significant milestones that reflected our mission to foster transparency and inclusivity in research.
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India’s Young Investigators’ Meeting: A perspective

This is a guest post by Binay Panda (2024 ASAPbio Fellow), Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India (https://www.binaypandalab.org/). I spoke at the 17th Young Investigators’ Meeting (YIM) in Agra, India.
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