Blog Category: ASAPbio news

In line with our mission to accelerate research communication, we believe that preprints can provide a valuable tool to accelerate research if used to share ongoing or preliminary work well in advance of journal submission. To inform how we can best support early sharing of preprints and understand what concerns may arise about this practice, we ran a survey asking for input on the motivations, potential concerns, and the type of feedback preprint authors wish to receiv...

By Thomas Lemberger This post originally appeared on reviewcommons.org. Preprints with public peer reviews (a.k.a.

Following our successful trial last year, we are thrilled to announce that ASAPbio will pursue crowd preprint review activities in 2022. Join us in supporting public feedback on preprints by becoming a crowd preprint reviewer!

ASAPbio is seeking several new members for our Board of Directors to support our mission to drive positive change in science communication and to broaden our geographic representation. We are looking for new Board members who can help us deliver on our strategic goals and complement the perspectives of existing Board members.

We’re delighted to announce that we will be continuing our work on preprints and open peer review through 2024 with a combined $250,000 per year in funding committed from the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative (CZI), Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI),... This generous support will sustain ASAPbio’s mission to accelerate discovery in the life sciences.

ASAPbio is seeking a part-time Communications Assistant to help us share our work on preprints & open peer review with the life sciences community. This position provides an opportunity to engage with open science and build communication skills; it might be especially well-suited for students or postdocs.