What is your current role? Tell us a bit about your research I am the Scholarly Communications Librarian at Excelsior University, where I encourage faculty to utilize open access publishing and our institutional repository. I have my MA in History from Queen Mary, the University of London, and my MLIS from St. John’s University. My…
What is your current role? Tell us a bit about your research I’m a postdoc in Max Planck Institute for Biophysics located in Germany. My research is quite interdisciplinary integrating biology, physics and computer science and I’m mainly involved in structural biology. Why did you choose to participate in the ASAPbio Fellows program? As I…
What is your current role? Tell us a bit about your research. I am a lecturer at Michael Okpara University of Agriculture, Umudike, Abia State. I am passionate about participatory research, climate change and gender inclusion in Agriculture and rural development. Currently working on Effects of open data on agricultural development and also working on…
What is your current role? Tell us a bit about your research. I am a pharmaceutical chemistry lecturer with 10+ years of experience teaching organic & medicinal chemistry. I am also a Ph.D. candidate specializing in drug discovery for mycetoma, a WHO-neglected tropical disease. I am Deeply committed to improving the lives of neglected tropical…
What is your current role? Tell us a bit about your research. I am a biomedical engineer with a keen interest in molecular biology and evolution. Therefore, when I completed my master’s degree, I decided to apply for a fellowship at the Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência in Lisbon, Portugal. Here, I am studying gene essentiality…
What is your current role? Tell us a bit about your research. With over 9 years of experience in sustainable development and dual Master’s degrees, I am deeply committed to biodiversity conservation and advancing Sustainable Development Goals. Currently serving as a Communication Officer at Africa Graduate Mentorship and Coaching Programme (AGMCP) and Country Director at…
Victoria Yan started her preprint advocate journey as the Project Coordinator for ASAPbio’s ReimagineReview. She is now an Open Science Research Information Specialist at EMBL in Heidelberg, Germany. In the following interview, we discuss how EMBL is promoting the use of recognition of preprints from an institutional perspective. How do preprints fit into the bigger…
Join us to make scholarly communication in the life sciences more open and efficient by catalyzing cultural change in scholarly communication, for instance around the use of preprints and other interim research products, transparent review, and other innovations! About ASAPbio ASAPbio is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization working toward a vision of a life sciences communication…
Are you new to preprints and want to learn more about their use? Have you been using preprints for a while and now want to engage others? Then our Fellows program is for you! The use of preprints in the life sciences has grown over recent years, and an important driver has been community support…
Traditional journal clubs are present in most labs and departments bringing together early career researchers to discuss and review a chosen article. These groups effectively perform peer review but often don’t share the comments with the authors. This year ASAPbio is launching a fund to support current journal clubs in performing (and sharing) peer reviews…
In 2023 we progressed 38 people through the third installment of the ASAPbio Fellows program. Together this group participated in cohort calls to provide fundamental knowledge and training around preprints in addition to multiple projects, which we celebrate here. Awareness of preprints in Africa The adoption of preprints across the globe has not been equitable,…
Introduction Since the launch of bioRxiv in 2013, preprints have seen an explosion in use and adoption across the life sciences. Preprints now represent ~10% of the biomedical literature and are seeing increasing recognition across funding bodies, policy makers, academics and universities in promotion and hiring decisions. However, this adoption and recognition is not globally…
In our November 2023 community call, we heard from Lonni Besancon (Assistant Professor, Linkoping University) about his work exposing fraudulent and unreliable science. Lonni began with an overview of how he started researching reliability issues and highlighted that this is not his primary role; indeed, it is a large issue in the current system that…
We’re pleased to announce preprint launch parties during Cell Bio 2023 (Boston, MA, USA)! These lunch events are not formally affiliated with ASCB/EMBO, but will be held Monday and Tuesday, Dec 4 and 5, at a conference room at street level about a 10’ walk from the conference center. The agenda The event will kick…
Take cOAlition S’s survey by the November 29th deadline to support a new model of publishing cOAlition S, an initiative of more than 2 dozen national funders and charitable organizations, has recently released the “Towards Responsible Publishing” proposal. The two key features of this proposal, as stated in an introductory blog post, are: 1. Authors,…
As this year’s Fellows program comes to an end we wanted to reflect back on the past 8 months. The 2023 Fellows have been involved in a variety of projects from crowd preprint review to exploring the perceptions of preprints from researchers across Africa. Throughout the program, we have been utilising a fun, if underused,…