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…
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,…
This post originally appeared on Olivier Pourret’s blog and in Indonesian on Dasapta Erwin Irawan’s blog. Authors According to Katharine Sanderson, “publishing-industry representatives warn” that May’s EU Council call for a “no pay” academic publishing model is “unrealistic and lack[ing] detail”. However, the proposal is already being implemented via several approaches: (i) Authors can publish their work…
Everyone should have free and immediate access to research results, especially when they are publicly funded. Preprints are one way to share papers immediately and without cost to authors and readers, but much of the peer reviewed literature is still behind paywalls. The 2022 Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) memo, also known as the Nelson…
Our fourth Community Call of 2023 featured a discussion about the use of preprints in research assessment. The adoption of any product or innovation requires the presence of appropriate incentives and preprints are no different. Academia is driven by research and researcher assessment; from funding bodies awarding grants, hiring committees assessing potential new faculty members…
Major activities 1. Support culture change through community programs and outreach ASAPbio completed the initiatives below to raise awareness of preprints across diverse communities: 2. Promote constructive preprint review ASAPbio promoted adoption of preprint review via activities involving different stakeholders: 3. Expand the usage of preprints to share science earlier ASAPbio undertook projects to encourage…
Ogólne pytania Przesyłanie preprintów do serwerów preprintów “Scooping” Czym jest preprint? Preprint to naukowy manuskrypt dodany przez autorów na publiczny serwer. Preprint zawiera dane i metody, ale nie został jeszcze zaakceptowany przez czasopismo naukowe. Podczas gdy niektóre serwery przeprowadzają krótkie kontrole jakości (dla bardziej szczegółowych informacji na temat praktyk poszczególnych serwerów, zobacz asapbio.org/preprint-servers), manuskrypt autora…
What is your current role? Tell us a bit about your work Currently I am working as an Editor for Molecular Oncology and FEBS Open Bio journals, published by FEBS Press and Wiley. I am interested in understanding how one can improve the peer review experience from the ‘inside’ but also how preprints can be…
Last month, the US NIH released a Request for Information (RFI) for feedback on its planned implementation of last year’s White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) directive to make all US federally-funded research immediately publicly accessible. In addition to ensuring that “publications resulting from NIH-supported research are made available in PMC without…
We are pleased to announce the winners of the ASAPbio competition ‘Make your negative result a preprint winner’, which aimed to highlight the value of sharing negative and inconclusive scientific results via preprints. We know that science advances through a persistent exploration of research questions and approaches, and that this brings with it the fact…
ASAPbio is thrilled to join the Transform to Open Science (TOPS) initiative, a NASA project “designed to rapidly transform agencies, organizations, and communities to an inclusive culture of open science.” TOPS is also part of US White House’s Year of Open Science. Quoting the TOPS website, the initiative’s four goals are to: How ASAPbio is…
Our first Community Call of 2023 hosted a discussion about the use of preprints by communities in East Asia. While there has been increasing use of preprints in the last few years, trends so far suggest that communities from different geographical regions are at different stages of adoption. An analysis of bioRxiv preprints by Abdill…
Are you new to preprints and want to learn more about their use? Have you been wondering what the buzz is about preprint review? 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…
Illustration by Roberto Bia, shared under a Creative Commons CC BY license. Post by ASAPbio Fellow Laura Celotto There has been much debate for over a decade about reproducibility in science (Ioannidis). By “reproducibility”, we mean the ability of a scientist to reproduce their own results or others scientists’ published work. In a survey conducted…
Post by ASAPbio Fellow Kasturi Mahadik Throughout the year, groups of researchers, librarians, and other scholars are not only learning more about preprints but also unearthing various outlooks towards preprints through the ASAPbio Fellows program. As part of our activities in the program, some of us are interested in discovering the various perspectives that journal…
We applaud the recent US White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) memorandum on ensuring free, immediate, and equitable access to federally funded research. The updated policies requiring public access to peer-reviewed publications and research data will bring many benefits to the US and the global research community. We thank the OSTP for…
Peer reviewing is foundational science work, and very hard work. Why keep it behind the scenes? Opening it up is such a huge service to science, scientists, and the world.
Post by Yamini Ravichandran On June 7th ASAPbio hosted a workshop in collaboration with IndiaBioscience and Open Access India, to discuss preprints and the value they can add to research assessment frameworks in India. ASAPbio works to drive open and innovative communication in the life sciences and promotes the productive use of preprints. IndiaBioscience aims…
We’re thrilled to announce four new members of the ASAPbio Board of Directors: Gautam Dey, Carole Lee, Kleber Neves and Ludo Waltman. These appointments allow the Board to incorporate new perspectives from researchers in a wide range of disciplines including meta-research and also broaden the geographical representation in our Board. Gautam Dey orcid.org/0000-0003-1416-6223 Gautam is…