The ASAPbio Scientific Society Preprint Town Hall was held on Thursday, February 23, 2017 at the National Academy of Sciences Building in Washington DC (2101 Constitution Avenue, N.W., Washington, DC).
Scientific societies have long served researchers by providing them with opportunities to share unpublished data through poster and oral presentations at meetings. Today’s technology enables this sharing to flourish in the digital space as well as the physical.
The meeting featured scientist, funder, and society perspectives on preprints in the life sciences and details about the development of a next-generation preprint ecosystem. We also hoped to catalyze a discussion on how preprints can benefit scientific societies in the future.
Agenda (with links to video)
9:00am | Welcome and scientists’ perspective – Ron Vale (UCSF), Cynthia Wolberger (JHMI), Jessica Polka (ASAPbio) (download slides) |
9:50am | Funder perspective – Neil Thakur (NIH) (download slides) |
10:20am | Coffee and refreshment break |
10:40am | Remarks by Patricia Flatley Brennan (NIH/NLM) |
10:50am | Next generation preprint service – Phil Bourne (NIH) via video conference (download slides) |
11:20am | Societies innovating with publishing and preprints (panel) – Erika Shugart (ASCB), Stefano Bertuzzi (ASM) (view presentation), Darla Henderson (ACS) |
12:00pm | Discussion |
12:45pm | Adjourn |
Attendees (includes video conference participants)
First name | Last name | Organization |
Blythe | Alexander | Society for Neuroscience |
Elizabeth | Austin | American Association of Anatomists |
Christina | Bennett | American Physiological Society |
Stefano | Bertuzzi | ASM |
Phil | Bourne | NIH |
Patricia | Brennan | NIH/NLM |
Janine | Chiappa McKenna | American Anthropological Association |
Kara | Coleman | The Pew Charitable Trusts |
Benjamin | Corb | ASBMB |
Sara | Cullinan | American Society of Human Genetics |
Richard | Dodenhoff | American Society for Pharmacology & Experimental Therapeutics |
Sindy | Escobar Alvarez | Doris Duke Charitable Foundation |
Jessica | Foley | Focused Ultrasound Foundation |
Maryrose | Franko | Health Research Alliance |
Michele | Garfinkel | EMBO |
Catherine | Giffi | Wiley |
Judy | Glaven | HHMI |
Barbara | Goldman | American Society for Microbiology |
Brooks | Hanson | American Geophysical Union |
Darla | Henderson | ACS |
Jennifer | Holland | Histochemical Society |
Jessica | Homa | Society for Experimental Biology and Medicine |
Barbara | Jasny | AAAS/Science |
Rachael | Lallensack | AAAS/Science |
Thomas | Lemberger | EMBO |
Daniel | Levin | International Association for the Study of Pain |
Patti | Lockhart | ASPB |
Marsha | Lucas | Society for Developmental Biology |
David | Malakoff | AAAS/Science |
Joseph | McInerney | American Society of Human Genetics |
Marcia | McNutt | NAS |
David | Nelson | American Society of Human Genetics |
Rebecca | Osthus | American Physiological Society |
Jennifer | Pesanelli | FASEB |
Meagan | Phelan | AAAS/Science |
Chris | Pickett | Rescuing Biomedical Research |
Jessica | Polka | ASAPbio |
Claire | Rawlinson | BMJ |
John | Sack | HighWire Press |
Daniel | Salsbury | PNAS |
Rita | Scheman | The American Physiological Society |
Yvette | Seger | Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology (FASEB) |
Nick | Shockey | SPARC |
Erika | Shugart | American Society for Cell Biology |
Diane | Sullenberger | PNAS |
Neil | Thakur | NIH |
Ron | Vale | UCSF |
Kevin | Wilson | ASCB/CLS |
Nancy | Winchester | ASPB |
Cynthia | Wolberger | Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine |
Attendance does not constitute endorsement of any kind.