Marty Chalfie recently sent the following message to readers of The Worm Breeder’s Gazette: February 19, 2016 Dear Fellow Worm Workers, I have just returned from a very exciting meeting on archiving of manuscripts (preprints) in the biological sciences organized by Daniel Colón Ramos, Jessica Polka, Ron Vale, and Harold Varmus (See asapbio.org for more information),…
Harlan Krumholz, Harold H. Hines Jr. Professor of Medicine at Yale School of Medicine and ASAPbio attendee, is the author of a recent article in NPR entitled “Academic Medical Centers Get An F In Sharing Research Results.” You can watch his 5-minute talk at ASAPbio on preprints and data sharing here.
Take a picture of yourself and/or your coauthors celebrating the submission of a preprint and post it in the comments below (click the icon to at the bottom left of the text field to upload an image). Don’t forget to include a link to the preprint if it’s already available! You can get a link…
27 May 2020: The ASAPbio ambassadors group has transitioned into the ASAPbio Community ASAPbio Ambassadors act as local points of contact for discussions about the productive use of preprints in the life sciences. They also serve as representatives of ASAPbio within their home institutions and when traveling to conferences and other organizations. We’re providing resources to help…
What is a preprint? A preprint is a scientific manuscript that is uploaded by the authors to a public server. The preprint contains data and methods, but has not yet been accepted by a journal. While some servers perform brief quality-control inspections (see details on the practices of individual servers), the author’s manuscript is typically…
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arXiv (not-for-profit, free submissions) arXiv is an e-print service in the fields of physics, mathematics, computer science, quantitative biology, quantitative finance and statistics. bioRxiv (not-for-profit, free submissions) bioRxiv (pronounced “bio-archive”) is a free online archive and distribution service for unpublished preprints in the life sciences. It is operated by Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, a not-for-profit…
We, as employers and evaluators of promotions in academics and industry in the life sciences, recognize that a preprint provides valuable evidence for the evaluation of a candidate, even though it has not yet undergone peer review and been accepted for publication by a journal. Work posted on a server recognizes that the recent work…
Developed for Discussion at ASAPbio by The Royal Society, PLOS, eLife, and EMBO Press We are committed to increasing the accessibility of research and ensuring that it is communicated as rapidly as possible. To accelerate this process, we encourage researchers to deposit early versions of articles they intend to submit to a peer-reviewed journal in…
We, the undersigned researchers in the life sciences community, support the concept and expansion of an equitable, simple, and rapid system for disclosing our research work. Our support of such a system is based on the conviction that 1) the scientific community and society can benefit from and further develop the new knowledge that we…
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GENETICS and G3: Genes|Genomes|Genetics, peer-reviewed, peer-edited journals published by the Genetics Society of America (GSA), are proud to support the posting of preprints. Here, we outline our experience in a draft statement. Since 2012, in response to requests from members of our community, the GSA Journals have supported the posting of preprints. In 2015, we…
Lachlan Coin, Institute for Molecular Bioscience, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia Darya Vanichkina, Centenary Institute, University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia Alicia Oshlack, Murdoch Childrens Research Institute, Royal Children’s Hospital, Melbourne, Australia Transparency and openness are extremely beneficial for science. The immediate and open publication of findings via preprint servers results in rapid dissemination of…
David L. Stern Janelia Research Campus HHMI I have been following the discussion about preprints closely over the past few months and I am won over by the arguments that science papers should be made available freely to everyone as soon as authors feel that the work is complete. Posting papers to preprint servers is…
These documents were intended for discussion and feedback from meeting participants (in-person and on-line) and are not and were not intended to be final signing documents. Each attendee voted privately through a web interface after listening to the morning discussions on these issues. We received a number of specific editorial suggestions on these documents, which…
Gary McDowell, Future of Research and Tufts University, and Pandelis Perakakis, Mind, Brain and Behaviour Research Centre, University of Granada, Spain Please address any correspondence to garymcdow@gmail.com and peraka@ugr.es In reforming the culture of peer review and moving towards a system that embraces the use and recognition of pre-print servers, we are cognizant of the…
John R. Inglis and Richard Sever, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Please address any correspondence to inglis@cshl.edu and sever@cshl.edu bioRxiv (biorxiv.org) is a not-for-profit, online archiving and distribution service for preprints[1] of research papers in the life sciences. It was launched in November 2013 by Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, a research and educational institution, and receives financial support from…
James Fraser, UCSF Can we move towards more open and rapid sharing of scientific results without putting younger scientists careers at risk? Ideally we want evaluation (of candidates for faculty positions, of promotion of Assistant Professors, of graduate students for fellowships, or of grants for funding) to be thorough and based entirely on a careful…