If you know of additional university policies on the use of preprints in hiring and promotion, please contact us. More instances of open science in hiring & promotion more generally can be found in OSF projects by David Mellor and Felix Schönbrodt. Table of contents PhD graduation requirements Doctoral program recognition for preprints recommended by Peer…
Many journals accept manuscripts that have been previously posted as preprints. To check if a journal allows preprints, the best source of information is always the journal website. But you can find detailed preprint policies (which versions can be posted, under which licenses, and which servers are acceptable to use, etc) collected by the TRANSPOSE…
Several funding agencies have changed their policies surrounding using preprints, and others are considering doing so. We’re collecting relevant examples here. If you have references for us to add, please contact us. Policies American Heart Association (2021) “Sharing manuscripts before (or alongside) the formal peer review process is highly encouraged for AHA awardees. “ Australian Research…
While the practice of preprinting in the life sciences is not completely new, it has grown dramatically over the past few years. Note: this does not yet include 6,000 preprints on relevant OSF platforms. See Zenodo record for more details and raw data. However, preprints still represent a small fraction of the overall biomedical literature. …
Preprints are gaining momentum in the life sciences, but many biologists are still unfamiliar with them. We hope that these stickers (for your laptop, water bottle, travel mug, notebook, office door, etc) help start conversations. They’re 3″ x 1.5″ (the size of a regular post-it note folded in half) and are made of weather-resistant vinyl. Fill out…
Dear ASAPbio subscriber, Here’s what’s new: We held a successful Technical Workshop to discuss the feasibility of creating a central preprint service. All the notes are online, and you can also view the archived video stream. We’re working on a request for information to identify potential suppliers, their implementation strategies, and their predicted costs and…
Some scientists are concerned about possible negative repercussions of preprinting, like being scooped or being disqualified from submitting to a journal of choice, and others feel that preprinting may have no effect at all. However, many biologists have had very positive experiences with preprinting – including receiving helpful feedback, invitations to submit to journals, jobs, and grants as a result.…
The overall goal of the meeting is to outline options for reasonable technical specifications for a Central Pre-Review Publication Service. Based on input from this workshop and the scientific community, ASAPbio will approach funding agencies for 5 years of financial support of the Central Service, funds for the operation of a community-supported Governance Body, and…
John Chodacki CDL Tim Clark Harvard Alf Eaton* PeerJ Martin Fenner* DataCite James Fraser UCSF and ASAPbio organizer Lee Giles Penn State and CiteSeerX Darla Henderson ACS/ChemRxiv Robert Kiley Wellcome Library Thomas Lemberger EMBO, SourceData Jennifer Lin CrossRef Maryann Martone UCSD, NCMIR, Hypothes.is Johanna McEntyre Europe PMC, EMBL-EBI Bill McKinney Dataverse, Harvard Daniel Mietchen JATS…
Technical Workshop main page Video recordings by session Introduction to ASAPbio (Ron Vale) Introduction to the Academy (John Randell) What biologists want from preprints (James Fraser) Goals of the Technical Workshop (Jessica Polka) Slides Meeting participant introductions (roundtable) Breakout session 1A Report back from breakout sessions 1A Notes: Architecture, APIs, metadata, and file formats of existing preprint servers/platforms/journals)…
Dear ASAPbio subscriber, It’s been an exciting few months at ASAPbio! Here’s what’s happened: The report of our February meeting at HHMI was published in Science, and Ron Vale and Tony Hyman recently published an article about priority of discovery & preprints in eLife. ASAPbio was awarded grants totalling $400,000 in provisional funding from the…
Central Service model documents Summary: Background and a draft model Appendix 1: Rationale for a Central Service Appendix 2: Current feedback on Central Service features Current discussions with the community on proposed features of the Central Service Surveys and information from scientists We will continue to engage the scientific community on what services they want to see…
Central Service model documents Summary: Background and a draft model Appendix 1: Rationale for a Central Service Appendix 2: Current feedback on Central Service features Do we need new infrastructure and governance for preprints? Because the preprint server arXiv was born very early in the history of the internet and served its community well, it has become…
ASAPbio is iteratively seeking community feedback on a draft model for a Central Preprint Service. We will integrate community and stakeholder feedback into a proposal, containing several model variants, to funders this fall. Please leave your feedback on utility of the Central Service, its features, and the model described in the Summary in the comment…
The report from the workshop has been published (pdf archived 2/1/2017) ASAPbio (Accelerating Science and Publication in biology) will host a Preprint Service Technical Workshop at the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in Cambridge, MA on Tuesday, August 30, 2016. This one day meeting will be a gathering of technical representatives from existing preprint servers, repositories,…
This announcement was originally posted on the Simons Foundation website. On June 20, four foundations announced their support for ASAPbio (Accelerating Science and Publication in Biology), a scientist-driven effort with a mission to promote the use of preprints in the life sciences. The combined total provisional funding — from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, the…
Tony Hyman and ASAPbio founder Ron Vale have just published a Point of View in eLife building on their earlier blog post. ABSTRACT: The job of a scientist is to make a discovery and then communicate this new knowledge to others. For a scientist to be successful, he or she needs to be able to claim credit…
The following is a message from funding agency representatives who attended our recent Funders’ Workshop. As research funders who attended the ASAPbio Funder’s Workshop for Preprints held at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) on May 23-24, 2016, we wish to provide a brief summary of the meeting. This follows the initial Funder’s Perspective drawn…
The Data-Driven Discovery group at the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation released a post on Medium today soliciting feedback on proposed changes to their policies on a variety of open access practices. Preprints are discussed as follows: Ideally, all journal articles would first be available as preprints. Preprints are versions of your manuscript that are not…
On May 20, 2016, a Simons Foundation initiative, SFARI, announced that it has changed its policies to support and encourage the use of preprints. The Simons Foundation Autism Research Initiative (SFARI) recently made two important changes that we hope will help to accelerate the pace of autism research. First, we changed our grant award letter…