As we continue to make science more open, exposing the process of iteratively improving manuscripts through peer review is more important than ever. Writing constructive peer reviews takes time and effort – and should also be recognized as a scholarly output. Increasing transparency in peer review is timely and exciting
Open publication of peer reviews supports adhering to important principles of good research such as openness and respect, improves giving due credit to peer reviewers for their contributions and encourages responsible review practices. By supporting the Publish Your Reviews pledge, early career researchers promote an ethical and transparent approach to peer reviews, and contribute to further improvement of this vital practice.
What is your current role? Tell us a bit about your work or line of research I’m a health librarian. I’m currently the head of the Central Library – Center for Information and Documentation of the University of Lisbon School of Medicine. I’m also an external PhD candidate at the Centre for Science and Technology…
What is your current role? Tell us a bit about your research I am a cognitive neuroscientist researching the neural correlates of self-initiated movements in humans through M/EEG and integration-to-bound models (PhD to be from Sorbonne University and CEA Saclay, Paris). But since 2020 I have been moonlighting as a founder and builder in the…
As open scholarship practices grow, dedicated preprint servers are springing up in many disciplines. However, researchers are also depositing preprints in other platforms, including institutional and generalist repositories. These destinations can be familiar to researchers and well-integrated into the scholarly communications infrastructure, but many do not presently offer the same preprint-related features found in purpose-built…
Post by Sandra Franco Iborra and Iratxe Puebla While preprints have been adopted as a means to promptly disseminate research, they also open up new ways to participate in the scientific discourse around the latest research. There are many benefits to public feedback on preprints: comments that can help authors improve their work, broader opportunities…
While preprint feedback is beneficial for the authors, reviewers, readers and other stakeholders, public commenting on preprints has so far remained relatively low. Cultural barriers likely influence participation in public preprint feedback. Authors fear that competitors will leave unfair criticism, or that even fair criticism will bias journal editors and evaluators: while nearly every paper…
We are pleased to announce the winners of the first ASAPbio preprint communication competition, which aimed to communicate to a wide audience the value proposition of preprints as a tool for research communication. Preprints played a crucial role during the COVID-19 pandemic, speeding up the dissemination of scientific findings that led to a quicker understanding…
We sent the list of signatories below to the ARC on September 3, 2021. The Australian Research Council (ARC) does not allow researchers to cite preprints in their grant applications and recently disqualified a number of applications for this reason. Preprints advance scientific discovery and are encouraged by many funders, including Australia’s National Health and…
Good scholarship calls for citing work from which ideas come. But unfortunately, when submitting to a small number of journals, you may be asked to remove a citation to a preprint. Here’s how to handle it. Why (not) cite preprints? Previously on this blog, we covered the importance of giving due credit to all works…
These FAQ were developed following the July 21, 2021 #FeedbackASAP meeting. If you have any additional questions or comments, please contact jessica.polka@asapbio.org. Last update: 2022-01-28 General What is public preprint feedback? Where does it happen? How can I find it? What are the benefits of making preprint feedback public? What are the concerns? What’s it…
![Yearly preprints/all-papers in Microsoft Academic Graph, trend by domain, reproduced from Xie B, Shen Z, and Wang K 2021 [8]](https://asapbio.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/Screenshot-2021-07-01-at-10.03.25-650x422.png "Yearly preprints/all-papers in Microsoft Academic Graph, trend by domain")
Blog post by Christine Ferguson and Martin Fenner Information overload is the difficulty in understanding an issue and effectively making decisions when one has too much information about that issue, and is generally associated with the excessive quantity of daily information. – Wikipedia [1] Information overload is a common problem, and it is an old…
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The ASAPbio Community is a global and diverse group of researchers and other stakeholders in science communication. While they bring varied expertise and opinions, they all share an interest and support for the use of preprints. Our Community members had expressed interest in hearing a broader range of perspectives about preprints, beyond the pro-preprint views…
Our sincere thanks to Michele Avissar-Whiting and the AJE team for the translation of this FAQ. The page with the FAQ in English is available here: https://asapbio.org/preprint-info/preprint-faq 一般问题解答 什么是预印本？ 预印本与期刊兼容吗？ 预印本对我向期刊投稿有帮助吗？ 为什么要发预印本？发预印本有何价值？ 预印本包括哪些内容，何时将研究结果发为预印本？ 期刊、机构或资助者是否必须运行预印本服务器？ 作为期刊，如何确保对提交过预印本的稿件抱持开放心态？ 能对预印本实行双盲审稿吗？ 资助者和求职委员会对预印本怎样看？ 既然已经发了预印本，为什么还要在期刊上再发表一遍？ 在哪里可以找到预印本？预印本会与PubMed或类似服务整合吗？ 预印本评论会对我的论文造成损害吗？ 反对预印本的主要论点或可能的意外后果有哪些？ 生物学研究的预印服务器有哪些？ 没有同行评审，怎么知道预印本是否有缺陷？ 预印本能否确立优先权？ 如何在期刊出版物中引用预印本？ 预印本是开放存取的吗？ 如果不正确的信息传播给了大众怎么办？ 如果想为自己的研究工作申请专利，可以发预印本吗？ 提交预印本常见问题解答 发预印本前应考虑哪些问题？ 在点击”提交”按钮之前，应该如何准备预印本？ 能将预印本提交到多个服务器吗？ 哪些期刊允许同时发预印本？ 我应该为预印本选择哪种授权？ 预印本与期刊的投稿是否不同？ 我应该在何时发预印本？…
What is your current role? Tell us a bit about your research/your work I am a postdoctoral fellow in the laboratory of Prof. Jack Szostak at Massachusetts General Hospital/Harvard Medical School. I am broadly interested in the molecular mechanisms of RNA in a prebiotic environment. In my research, I use computational simulations to understand the…
What is your current role? Tell us a bit about your research I am an early career researcher and inventor interested in how external inputs shape the behaviour of epithelial cells and how this knowledge can be used to improve human health. My PhD research in Cardiff University (the UK) gravitated around the enhancement of…
Blog post by Sónia Gomes Pereira As scientists, we spend a great deal of time obsessing about a particular subject, sometimes crossing the thin line of what is recommended or healthy… Yet, publishing an article takes several months or even years of revisions, only to – more often than not – result in little changes…
Sincères remerciements à Denis Bourguet, Thomas Guillemaud et Fabio Palmieri pour leur aide avec cette traduction. La page FAQ ASAPbio en anglais est disponible ici: https://asapbio.org/preprint-info/preprint-faq. Si vous avez des questions ou des suggestions concernant la traduction, veuillez nous écrire à iratxe.puebla@asapbio.org. Questions fréquemment posées sur les preprints Qu’est-ce qu’un preprint ? Les preprints sont-ils compatibles…
On January 14th, 2021, ASAPbio hosted the #PreprintsInThePublicEye: Challenges and Solutions in an Age of Misinformation event. With speakers from the worlds of preprints, academia, and journalism, the event sought to highlight the problem of misinformation and the misrepresentation of research in the context of preprints and COVID-19. We asked, how can we know what…