A recent ASAPbio Community Call (February 26, 2025) was inspired by a preprint titled ‘Mapping the preprint review metadata transfer workflows.’ The preprint is a working group product borne out of the, ‘Supporting interoperability of preprint ... Maria presented first, defining preprint review metadata as “all kinds of information about the review record,” e.g., reviewer name, affiliation, link to preprint being reviewed, review outcome, assigned score, and more.
A comprehensive and high quality survey of researcher attitudes toward the scholarly publishing process was published last week. The joint product of a consultation with Research Consulting and the Centre for Science and Technology Studies (CWTS) Leiden, a wide-ranging report on the survey, along with the complete dataset and survey materials, are now available.
The survey was commissioned by the Plan S coalition of funders, who proposed a new strategy, “Towards Responsible Publishing” in October 2023. The crux of the cOAlition S proposal is a powerful vision for publishing that puts researchers in the driver’s seat:
“Our vision is a community-based scholarly communication system fit for open science in the 21st century. This system empowers scholars to share the full range of their research
outputs and to participate in new quality control mechanisms and evaluation standards for these outputs. This approach will ensure rapid, transparent dissemination of high-quality scientific knowledge.”
Responsible Publishing’s vision is highly aligned with the ASAPbio vision and values, but do researchers agree? Here are five key takeaways from the report –
The results highlight the power of preprints to transform scholarly publishing. In addition to the full report, readers might find this interactive dashboard a useful way to explore the results. Results are stratified by continent, researcher experience, discipline, and more.
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