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A survey titled Preprinting early work for community input asks about motivations for receiving feedback, offering options such as journal suggestions, methodological comments, and community engagement. Logos for ASAPbio and ICOR are on the left.

Survey: how early would you preprint and what feedback would you like?

During the pandemic, research communication and progress has accelerated through the massively increased posting of preprints. The increased use of preprints is a positive development, however, most preprints still take the form of traditional research papers posted shortly before or in parallel to their submission to a journal.

Now open: applications for the 2022 ASAPbio Fellows program

We’re thrilled to open applications for the 2022 ASAPbio Fellows program. Interested in a deep dive into the preprint landscape?

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Introducing PReF: Preprint Review Features

This post originally appeared on ReimagineReview. Preprint reviews hold the potential to build trust in preprints and drive innovation in peer review.

Bar chart titled Services offered by repositories with preprints (n=71). It shows percentages for services: screening (16.44%), DOI assignment (39.73%), versioning support (31.51%), commenting (6.85%), external peer reviews (9.59%), linking to published version (61.64%), and banners (5.48%).

Delving deeper into preprints in institutional and generalist repositories

As open scholarship practices grow, dedicated preprint servers are springing up in many disciplines. However, researchers are also depositing preprints in other platforms, including institutional and generalist repositories.

The image is an infographic on improving scientific discourse, using the acronym FAST. It stands for Focused, Appropriate, Specific, and Transparent, with each term describing related actions for effective peer review and communication.

FAST principles for a thriving preprint feedback culture

While preprints have been adopted as a means to promptly disseminate research, they also open up new ways to participate in the scientific discourse around the latest research. There are many benefits to public feedback on preprints: comments that can help authors improve their work, broader opportunities for early career researchers to participate in review, and additional context for readers.

Crowd preprint review banner - faces of

Experimenting with new modalities of preprint review – what we learnt from the crowd preprint review trial

Traditional peer review relies on a couple of individuals spending hours on a paper. What if the wisdom of the crowd could get it done much faster?

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