Participating journals are interested in recruiting editors and/or reviewers based on the public feedback they’ve provided on preprints. Join the network to share your experience in writing comments and reviews on preprints. Preprint feedback has the potential to not only help authors and readers, but also to identify potential reviewers and editorial board members for…
Fostering public preprint feedback through crowd preprint review While there is increasing interest in preprint review activities, the level of public commenting and reviewing on preprints remains low overall. To explore review modalities that may foster participation in preprint review, in 2021 ASAPbio started activities to facilitate public reviews on preprints inspired in the crowd…
2022-04-27 update: The principles are the focus of a Point of View article in eLife. 2022-01-13 update: The FAST principles have now been posted as a preprint. As Ivan Oransky has noted, ‘science is a proposition and a conversation and an argument’ [1]; feedback and discussion around scientific reports are integral parts of the scientific…
We’re thrilled to announce the speakers for the July 21 #FeedbackASAP meeting! These individuals will discuss why public preprint feedback is needed and what institutions and societies are doing to support it in two plenary sessions at the beginning of the meeting. Time in UTC (duration) Title Description 15:00 (5’) Welcome Kickoff and announcements 15:05…
Blog post by Daniela Saderi and Sarah Greaves In May 2020 a group of publishers and organisations made a direct call in response to the urgent need to openly and rapidly share and review COVID-19 research. More than 2,000 reviewers signed up: their details were shared with the journals or platforms involved, and they were…
![Yearly preprints/all-papers in Microsoft Academic Graph, trend by domain, reproduced from Xie B, Shen Z, and Wang K 2021 [8]](https://asapbio.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/Screenshot-2021-07-01-at-10.03.25-650x422.png "Yearly preprints/all-papers in Microsoft Academic Graph, trend by domain")
Blog post by Christine Ferguson and Martin Fenner Information overload is the difficulty in understanding an issue and effectively making decisions when one has too much information about that issue, and is generally associated with the excessive quantity of daily information. – Wikipedia [1] Information overload is a common problem, and it is an old…
This post originally appeared on the Review Commons blog. Review Commons is announcing two new policies today: As of August 1, 2021, Review Commons will require all authors to post their manuscript as a preprint, prior to transfer to an affiliate journal1. In return, all the affiliate journals provide authors with scooping protection from the date of posting of the…
We’re thrilled to announce two new members of the ASAPbio Board of Directors: Osman Aldirdiri, a student and researcher at the University of Khartoum, Sudan, and Thabiso Motaung, a Lecturer at the University of Pretoria, South Africa. Both members have participated in the current or former class of ASAPbio Fellows. Thabiso is a microbiologist with…
Today, we’re excited to release a report on shared technology needs for preprints in the life sciences. This represents the culmination of six months of work with the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative Open Science Program to map missing technologies to enhance preprint-based collaboration and innovation. Preprints in biomedicine have come a long way in a few…
Your comments welcome We would like to hear your feedback and reactions, and we especially encourage readers to annotate specific parts of the report with links to existing technologies or projects that may fulfill some of these needs. We’re using Hypothesis as a tool for social annotation, and you’ll be prompted to register for an…
The use of preprints is growing across different life sciences disciplines. After a slower adoption in the plant and agricultural sciences, we are now seeing more researchers in these fields disseminating their work via preprints. At our webinar on April 29 co-hosted with CABI, we discussed how preprint trends are looking for these disciplines and…
Public feedback on preprints can unlock their full potential to accelerate science. Public preprint review can help authors improve their paper, find new collaborators, and gain visibility. It also helps readers find interesting and relevant papers and contextualize them with the reactions of experts in the field. Never has this been more apparent than in…
The ASAPbio Community is a global and diverse group of researchers and other stakeholders in science communication. While they bring varied expertise and opinions, they all share an interest and support for the use of preprints. Our Community members had expressed interest in hearing a broader range of perspectives about preprints, beyond the pro-preprint views…
Our sincere thanks to Michele Avissar-Whiting and the AJE team for the translation of this FAQ. The page with the FAQ in English is available here: https://asapbio.org/preprint-info/preprint-faq 一般问题解答 什么是预印本？ 预印本与期刊兼容吗？ 预印本对我向期刊投稿有帮助吗？ 为什么要发预印本？发预印本有何价值？ 预印本包括哪些内容，何时将研究结果发为预印本？ 期刊、机构或资助者是否必须运行预印本服务器？ 作为期刊，如何确保对提交过预印本的稿件抱持开放心态？ 能对预印本实行双盲审稿吗？ 资助者和求职委员会对预印本怎样看？ 既然已经发了预印本，为什么还要在期刊上再发表一遍？ 在哪里可以找到预印本？预印本会与PubMed或类似服务整合吗？ 预印本评论会对我的论文造成损害吗？ 反对预印本的主要论点或可能的意外后果有哪些？ 生物学研究的预印服务器有哪些？ 没有同行评审，怎么知道预印本是否有缺陷？ 预印本能否确立优先权？ 如何在期刊出版物中引用预印本？ 预印本是开放存取的吗？ 如果不正确的信息传播给了大众怎么办？ 如果想为自己的研究工作申请专利，可以发预印本吗？ 提交预印本常见问题解答 发预印本前应考虑哪些问题？ 在点击”提交”按钮之前，应该如何准备预印本？ 能将预印本提交到多个服务器吗？ 哪些期刊允许同时发预印本？ 我应该为预印本选择哪种授权？ 预印本与期刊的投稿是否不同？ 我应该在何时发预印本？…
What is your current role? Tell us a bit about your research I am a postdoctoral researcher at CUBRIC brain image centre, Cardiff University (UK) but shortly I will move to Cambridge University. My current research project is about sleep engineering; trying to understand sleep, memory consolidation and creativity using machine learning. What are you…
What is your current role? Tell us a bit about your research I’m a lecturer and researcher in hydrogeology. My research interests are urban hydrogeology and hydrochemistry. I work mostly with water quality data using open source app like R and Python Pandas. What are you excited about in science communication? To share my knowledge…
What is your current role? Tell us a bit about your research I am a Research Associate at the Department of Biochemistry and a Fellow of St Catharine’s College, University of Cambridge. My research work is in structural biology of bacteria and I specialise in electron cryo-microscopy. I also teach biochemistry and genetics to first-year…
What is your current role? Tell us a bit about your research I am CRUK Fellow at the Zayed Centre for Research Into Rare Disease in Children, University College London, UK. My research interest aims to explore the cross-talk of proteomics and metabolic aspects of Leukaemic Stem Cells with a strong interaction at an epigenetic…