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#PreprintReviewChallenge – Reviewing preprints together

Sep 25, 2020
Earlier this week we hosted the #PreprintReviewChallenge, a collaborative session where we worked on comments and reviews of preprints. The event was part of Peer Review Week and our goal was to develop the largest collection of public reviews on preprinted research in a day, and of course, also to connect with others with an interest in this important activity.
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Preprint abstracts should be open: why we joined the I4OA stakeholder group

Sep 24, 2020
We’ve proud to join the stakeholder group of the Initiative for Open Abstracts, a sister project to Initiative for Open Citations. Making abstracts openly available and machine-readable helps readers discover relevant research.
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Preprints in the Public Eye

Sep 18, 2020
Today, we’re pleased to announce the launch of a project on the use of preprints in the media with support from the Open Society Foundations.  Premature media coverage was the top concern about preprints in our recent #biopreprints2020 survey,... This is not surprising.
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The economic argument for preprints

Sep 02, 2020
Preprinting helps researchers and the scientific enterprise as a whole by providing increased visibility and access to early results and facilitating feedback that improves papers. While the benefits can be felt on an individual level by readers and authors, the advantages compound at the systemic level to increase the pace and efficiency of discovery.  The production of knowledge is a fundamental human process, the value ...
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Join the #PreprintReviewChallenge

Aug 20, 2020
#PreprintReviewChallenge – 22 September 2020 On September 22 ASAPbio is hosting the #PreprintReviewChallenge as part of Peer Review Week 2020. In a live session hosted online, we will get together to write constructive comments and reviews on preprints, with the aim to develop the largest collection to date of public commentary on preprinted research in a single day.
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Review Commons webinar: Journal-independent Peer Review in the Life Sciences

Aug 12, 2020
Tuesday, September 8, 2020  12pm New York | 9am San Francisco | 5pm London | 6pm Berlin | 9:30pm Mumbai About half of biomedical articles are submitted to more than one journal, leading to repeated peer review and publication delays. Review Commons is a free, journal-independent peer review service that allows you to transfer your manuscript and its reviews to one of 17 participating journals for consideration, and to post your refereed preprint to bioRxiv.
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