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Reflecting on the 2023 ASAPbio Fellows whiteboard activities

As this year’s Fellows program comes to an end we wanted to reflect back on the past 8 months. The 2023 Fellows have been involved in a variety of projects from crowd preprint review to exploring the perceptions of preprints from researchers across Africa.

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Community and commercialisation in biomedical preprint servers

Science is a community effort, but publishing has long been co-opted by commercial interests, where researchers’ labor in authoring, reviewing, and editing are used to bolster publishers’ profits. Preprints are free to post and read, but to what extent do commercial interests influence the space?

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Perceptions of preprints by Africa-based researchers

Preprints have the potential to bring about greater equity in the publishing process and academia more widely. However, the adoption of preprints varies significantly across academic fields and geographical regions.

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How to increase the visibility of your research by preprinting your poster

As the fall conference season approaches, consider maximizing the impact of your talk or poster by posting it as a preprint! While you can also archive your slides or the image of your poster on Zenodo, Figshare, or another repository (a great way to increase your visibility and get a DOI), there are several benefits to writing up your work in a narrative article: But don�...

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Driving recognition of preprints in research assessment: recap from the ASAPbio July Community Call

Our fourth Community Call of 2023 featured a discussion about the use of preprints in research assessment. The adoption of any product or innovation requires the presence of appropriate incentives and preprints are no different.

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Preprints for degree graduation requirements

Different institutions around the world have varying requirements for PhD students to graduate. Some require a thesis whilst others require published papers (or several!).

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