Crowd preprint review update on Sciety
Our crowd preprint review trial has been running for a month. We discuss the trial in this blog post on Sciety.org. [External link]
‘How to peer review’ workshops for the Preprint Reviewer Recruitment Network
ASAPbio’s Preprint Reviewer Recruitment Network aims to help researchers, especially ECRs, break into reviewing or editing roles by sharing their comments and reviews of preprints as examples of their work. We recognize that people have diverse backgrounds and prior experiences in peer review. To assist researchers in the Network in developing their expertise with writing…
Everything early career researchers should know about preprints – join our panel discussion on October 6
Wednesday, 6 October 2021 9am Los Angeles | 12pm New York | 1pm São Paulo | 5pm London | 9:30pm Mumbai | 12am Hong Kong The use of preprints is growing in the life sciences. Preprints help researchers worldwide to accelerate dissemination of research findings to the scientific community, but how exactly can preprints be…
Introducing Preprints and Publishing in the Life and Biomedical Sciences: a course on preprints and the journal publication process
Blog post by Iratxe Puebla and the ASAPbio Fellows Tara Fischer, Gautam Dey, Jonny Coates, Aleksandra Petelski, Vanessa Bortoluzzi & Gilbert Kibet-Rono A key step in the research process is the communication of researchers’ work to the scientific community. Preprints can bring many benefits to science communication, but the inner workings of the publication process…
Urging the Australian Research Council to revise its preprint policies
We sent the list of signatories below to the ARC on September 3, 2021. The Australian Research Council (ARC) does not allow researchers to cite preprints in their grant applications and recently disqualified a number of applications for this reason. Preprints advance scientific discovery and are encouraged by many funders, including Australia’s National Health and…
What to do if you’re asked to remove a citation to a preprint
Good scholarship calls for citing work from which ideas come. But unfortunately, when submitting to a small number of journals, you may be asked to remove a citation to a preprint. Here’s how to handle it. Why (not) cite preprints? Previously on this blog, we covered the importance of giving due credit to all works…
FAQ on public preprint feedback
Assembled following the July 21, 2021 FeedbackASAP meeting.
Public preprint feedback – FAQ
These FAQ were developed following the July 21, 2021 #FeedbackASAP meeting. If you have any additional questions or comments, please contact jessica.polka@asapbio.org. Last update: 2022-01-28 General What is public preprint feedback? Where does it happen? How can I find it? What are the benefits of making preprint feedback public? What are the concerns? What’s it…
Tackling information overload: identifying relevant preprints and reviewers
The growth of preprints in the life sciences has amplified earlier concerns about the challenges of keeping abreast of the latest research findings. Researchers need to keep up to date not only with the most recent publications in journals but also with the latest scholarly work posted on preprint servers. Three quarters of the respondents…
Curation and review in the preprint landscape
By Victoria Yan At the ASAPbio #FeedbackASAP meeting held on July 21st, 2021, the Sciety team (Hannah Drury, Godwyns Onwuchekwa, and Paul Shannon) led an interactive session examining different aspects of the evolving landscape of preprint curation and review. What is curation? We began the session by brainstorming what curation encompasses. Through a mind-mapping exercise,…
Considering campaigns to post journal reviews on preprints
As part of the July 21, 2021 FeedbackASAP meeting, Ludo Waltman (CWTS, Leiden University), James Fraser (UCSF), Cooper Smout (Free Our Knowledge) organized a breakout session entitled “Posting journal reviews on preprints” to identity an evolutionary bridge between a system based around journal-organized peer review and referred preprints. Peer reviewing: for whom and why? The…
Public preprint review as a tool to empower the next generation of socially-conscious peer reviewers
By Rebeccah Lijek and Jessica Polka At the July 21, 2021 #FeedbackASAP meeting, Mugdha Sathe (UW), Rebeccah Lijek (Mount Holyoke), Daniela Saderi (PREreview) organized a breakout session on using public preprint review in teaching and mentorship of early career researchers. Who is a “peer?” The session began with Daniela Saderi leading us in discussion about…
How to foster a positive preprint feedback culture: From FAST principles to implementation
2022-01-13 update: The FAST principles have now been posted as a preprint. As Chris Jackson pointed out in the first session of #FeedbackASAP, preprint feedback is part of the collaborative culture of science. A positive culture of comments and review of preprints brings many benefits to the scientific process, but what does this culture look…
Developing a taxonomy to describe preprint review processes
By Victoria Yan 2022-01-27 update: This work has now been completed. Please see our blog post announcing PReF. Why develop a preprint review taxonomy? Dozens of projects organizing peer review of preprints are active or being developed. In this landscape full of new possibilities, differentiating among innovative forms of preprint review is challenging. Furthermore, these…
ASAPbio preprint communication competition – help us communicate preprint science to the public
Are you keen to show your passion for science and preprints to the non-scientific community? Got an aptitude for writing or showcasing visual art? If this sounds like you, we’re looking for you! Our preprint science communication competition seeks to find new ways to engage and reach out to the general public. Organized by the…
Join the crowd preprint review trial
We are thrilled to announce that we will be running a trial to test the crowd review approach for preprint review. We invite cell biologists with an interest in preprints and preprint feedback to join this trial. Why is ASAPbio running this trial? While there is increasing interest in review activities around preprints, the level…
Announcing the Preprint Reviewer Recruitment Network
Today, we’re excited to launch the Preprint Reviewer Recruitment Network, a pilot to share researchers’ preprint reviewing experience with journals looking for reviewers or editorial board members. Public preprint feedback has the potential to not only help authors and readers, but also to identify potential reviewers and editorial board members for journals. Unfortunately, finding preprint…