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A digest of news about preprints, open peer reviews, and other innovations in publishing in the life sciences
ASAPbio newsletter vol 13 – ASAPbio is hiring, Preprints on Europe PMC, ICYMI
Dear subscribers, Hope July is treating you well! Here are some recent updates from ASAPbio and the world of preprints and open peer review. We’re hiring (please help us spread the word!) Preprints now appear at Europe PMC A digest of recent preprint and peer review news Job posting: advance the use of preprints in…
TRANSPOSE preprint policy records
“I’m interested in preprinting my manuscript, but what will the journal(s) I hope to submit to think about that?” In June 2019, we launched TRANSPOSE, a searchable online database of journal policies at https://transpose-publishing.github.io/ — visit this website to compare the preprint policies of up to 3 journals at a time. TRANSPOSE is a grassroots initiative aiming to…
African scientists launch their own preprint repository
Source: Nature
Job posting: advance the use of preprints in the life sciences as Associate Director at ASAPbio
2018-09-25 update: This posting is now closed. Join us to help make scholarly communication in the life sciences more open and efficient by catalyzing cultural change around the use of preprints! About ASAPbio We’re a young 501(c)(3) nonprofit that got its start in start in 2015 as an informal group of researchers who organized…
Iratxe is Director of Strategic Initiatives & Community for ASAPbio. In her role Iratxe works to foster awareness of preprints and drive community engagement, Iratxe also coordinates the ASAPbio Fellows program. Prior to ASAPbio, Iratxe worked in publishing for 16 years, she held editorial roles with Open Access publishers, initially at BioMed Central and then PLOS,…
Advocating for publishing peer review
By Iain Cheeseman Whitehead Institute Journals play a critical role in the scientific process, refining research through peer review and disseminating it to appropriate communities. At its best, the publishing process is a partnership among editors, staff, authors, reviewers, and readers. Each group has a vested interest in working together to ensure a robust and…
Comparing quality of reporting between preprints and peer-reviewed articles – a crowdsourced initiative
By Olavo B. Amaral Institute of Medical Biochemistry, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil As the preprint movement gains traction in biology, the time is ripe to revisit some aspects of scientific publication that we view as fundamental – first and foremost of which is the peer review process itself. Common concerns about preprints…
ASAPbio newsletter vol 12 – peer review meeting summary, preprint survey, and collecting commenting venues
Dear subscribers, This month, we summarize a recent meeting on peer review and present two requests: Support for open reports (signed or not): summary of the HHMI/Wellcome/ASAPbio Peer Review meeting On February 7-9, 2018, a group of approximately 90 junior and senior scientists, publishers, editors, and funders convened at HHMI Headquarters in Chevy Chase, MD…
Preprint licensing survey
The ASAPbio preprint licensing task force invited all preprint authors to take an anonymous 5-minute survey about licensing choices between February 15 and March 5, 2018. Results, ppt files, and more analysis can be found in the Github repository under a CC0 license.
Information for the AD summit
[gview file=”https://asapbio.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/AD-Summit-Jessica-Polka.pptx”] Preprints Journal practices and policies SHERPA/RoMEO (database of journal archiving policies) Wikipedia page of preprint policies Other types of journal practices (like preprint editors) University policies Funder policies Preprint FAQ Monthly preprint statistics Preprint journal clubs
Peer review meeting summary
On February 7-9, 2018, a group of approximately 90 junior and senior scientists, publishers, editors, and funders convened at HHMI Headquarters in Chevy Chase, MD for a meeting on Transparency, Recognition, and Innovation in Peer Review in the Life Sciences, organized by Wellcome, ASAPbio, and HHMI. Agenda and outcomes The event kicked off on…
How to launch a transformative and sustainable forum for publication and scholarly critiques of research in the life sciences?
By Harinder Singh Director, Division of Immunobiology and the Center for Systems Immunology Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center This perspective is a result of the various insightful commentaries that have been posted on the ASAPbio site in the context of the HHMI/Wellcome/ASAPbio meeting on “Transparency, Recognition and Innovation in Peer Review in the Life Sciences.”…