Thanks, Naomi!
Over the past 15 months or so, I’ve been privileged to work closely with Naomi Penfold to advance preprinting in the life science. Now, as she heads to eLife as their Community Manager, I wanted to thank her for some of the incredible work she’s done at ASAPbio. Together with Jamie Kirkham and Fiona Murphy,…
Building trust in preprints together
On January 20 and 21, 2020, over 30 representatives from preprint servers, publishers, funders, standards, indexing and metadata infrastructure organisations, and beyond, gathered at EMBL-EBI to develop ambitious but achievable recommendations for metadata and processes that would improve the discoverability, reuse, and interoperability of preprints in the life and biomedical sciences.
“I chose to post a preprint as a way of sharing of findings earlier. It is important because a preprint is accessible online before the review process is completed. Furthermore, a preprint can be cited and readers can comment on it. The comments may be incorporated when the author is addressing reviewers’ remarks.”
Pie Ntampaka, School of Veterinary Medicine, University of Rwanda, Nyagatare, Rwanda
Preprints and ethical publishing practice: COPE’s Discussion document as a stepping stone to best practice guidelines
By Iratxe Puebla, Facilitation and Integrity Officer, COPE The use of preprints in the life sciences has increased over recent years and has sparked a number of conversations about their use, as well as their potential benefits and challenges. It is fair to say that there are differing views around preprints; while some communities use…
Analysing preprint metadata to understand adoption and impact
Preprinting in the life sciences has grown rapidly in recent years but still represents a very small fraction (~3%) of the biomedical literature published each year. One of ASAPbio’s major tasks is to engage the research community about continuing adoption and developing best practices for preprints – but we rely on fairly broad metrics when…
NISO and Preprints: Interoperability, Engagement, and Education
Alice Meadows, Director of Community Engagement, and Jill O’Neill, Director of Content, NISO Preprints have come a long way in the past few years. The granddaddy of digital preprint platforms is, of course, arXiv (launched in 1991). But although it was joined by a handful of others over the years, including SSRN way back in…
Search for preprints in your native language with PanLingua
The majority of scholarly work in biology is published in English, a language most of the world does not speak. To help remediate this key issue hindering inclusive scientific dialogue, Humberto Debat and Rich Abdill built PanLingua, a multilingual preprint search tool intended to enable search and global access to machine translations of all preprints hosted by bioRxiv.
Reimagining review in a world of preprints
At the 2019 ASCB|EMBO cell biology meeting, we convened researchers, funders, publishers, and advocates in a panel discussion focused on making use of peer review on preprints. The use of preprints in the biomedical sciences has been increasing exponentially in recent years as it is becoming a common practice in research dissemination. Free from journal brands, preprints enable innovations…
Agenda
At the January 2020 workshop, we aim to build on significant recent progress by discussing best (or “good enough”) practices for metadata and processes that would build trust in preprints and support their discoverability, reuse and interoperability as first-class research outputs. From previously proposed recommendations and suggestions from participants, we propose the group develops practical…
Background information from previous ASAPbio meetings
For the purpose of this workshop, we are using ‘preprints’ to describe life sciences and biomedical research content that is shared openly before peer-review on online platforms, and typically in the format of complete research manuscripts. A group of life science research funders has previously proposed – see https://asapbio.org/principles – that preprints should: adhere to…
ASAPbio January 2020 workshop: A Roadmap for Transparent and FAIR Preprints in Biology and Medicine
January 20-21, 2020EMBL-EBI, Hinxton, UK (This workshop has now happened: please see the meeting report) Preprints offer an opportunity to advance science through accelerating communication and supporting discourse that enables research integrity and reproducibility. At the January 2020 ASAPbio workshop, co-organised with Jo McEntyre and Maria Levchenko (EMBL-EBI), and Oya Rieger (Ithaka S+R), we aim…