ASAPbio is thrilled to join the Transform to Open Science (TOPS) initiative, a NASA project “designed to rapidly transform agencies, organizations, and communities to an inclusive culture of open science.” TOPS is also part of US White House’s ...  Quoting the TOPS website, the initiative’s four goals are to: ASAPbio’s 2023 roadmap is already aligned with several Year of Open Science Goals, but we will focus in particular on #3, to “develop a plan or pilot a program to reward and ac...

Our first Community Call of 2023 hosted a discussion about the use of preprints by communities in East Asia. While there has been increasing use of preprints in the last few years, trends so far suggest that communities from different geographical regions are at different stages of adoption.

The growth in use of preprints in the life sciences has opened up opportunities for innovation in the evaluation, discussion and review of research works. In the last few years, different projects and communities have started to provide comments and reviews of preprints, experimenting with a variety of models: readers may comment on preprints via the commenting features enabled by some preprint servers...

The broader use of preprints has led to a wide range of activities involving reactions, comments and review of preprints. This means that in the current ecosystem, peer review also happens outside of journals and can take place on research outputs shared as preprints, facilitating a more open and diverse discourse on research works.

Are you new to preprints and want to learn more about their use? Have you been wondering what the buzz is about preprint review?

Preprints provide a great avenue for researchers to get feedback on their work from the community. This type of community feedback is particularly valuable when gathered on early preprints, that is, on manuscripts that are still work-in-progress, prior to their submission for journal publication.