Blog Category: Preprints

This is the third in our series of posts highlighting the winners of the ASAPbio competition ‘Make your negative result a preprint winner,’ which celebrates the value of using preprints to share negative and inconclusive scientific resu... In this post, we hear from Livia Songster (University of California San Diego), the first author of the preprint ‘Woronin bodies move dynamically and bidirectionally by hitchhiking on early endosomes in Aspergillus nidulans‘.

This is the second in our series of posts highlighting the winners of the ASAPbio competition ‘Make your negative result a preprint winner,’ which celebrate the value of using preprints to share negative and inconclusive scientific resu... In this post, we hear from Lilya Andrianova (University of Exeter Medical School & University of Glasgow), the first author of the preprint ‘No evidence from complementary data sources of a direct projection from the mouse anterior cingulate co...

Last week we announced the winners of the ASAPbio competition ‘Make your negative result a preprint winner’, a project by a group of ASAPbio Fellows that aimed to celebrate the value of using preprints to share negative and inconclusive scientifi... We have talked to the authors of the winning preprints to learn more about their work and their motivation to post their results as a preprint.

Last month, the US NIH released a Request for Information (RFI) for feedback on its planned implementation of last year’s White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) directive to make all US federally-funded research immediately publ... Below, we share ASAPbio’s response to the NIH RFI and opportunities for you to get involved in writing your own.

We are pleased to announce the winners of the ASAPbio competition ‘Make your negative result a preprint winner’, which aimed to highlight the value of sharing negative and inconclusive scientific results via preprints. We know that science advances through a persistent exploration of research questions and approaches, and that this brings with it the fact that some results will not confirm the original hypothesis and that methods will often require troubleshooting.

Preprints help to improve the overall quality, integrity and reproducibility of research outputs, as highlighted in UNESCO’s recommendations on open science. Preprint adoption is increasing across scientific disciplines and geographies thanks to the involvement of multiple players, including researchers, publishers, institutions, societies, and funders.