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ASAPbio calls and meetings

ASAPbio hosts a variety of community events to educate, inform, advocate, and bring our global community together. You’re invited to join an upcoming event!

Note: Most ASAPbio events are either community calls or major meetings; you’ll find archives of both types below.

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Explore our archive of community calls

Join the ongoing conversation around preprints and open peer review by watching our previous community calls. You can find all previous community call recordings on our YouTube channel or in this playlist. (These calls are just one of the benefits of joining the ASAPbio community!)

Experiments in publishing with Arcadia, PubPub & Octopus

In this months community call we are hosting a panel discussion on various experiments within science publishing.
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Replacing Academic Journals

In this months community call, Bjorn Brembs will discuss the problems with current academic journal system and the potential solutions to replacing this broken system.
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Tackling industrial scale research fraud: parallels with virus control

Join us for a presentation by Prof.
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OpenRxiv and a preprint progress update with Richard Sever

In this session, Richard Sever will give an update on the amazing progress that bioRxiv and medRxiv have made in recent years and will overview and discuss OpenRxiv, the new […]
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Institutional recognition of preprints

In this community call, we focus on institutional recognition of preprints, a key barrier for wider preprint adoption.
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Our new strategic direction from 2025

To kick off 2025, we at ASAPbio held our January community call on the topic of what’s next for ASAPbio’s strategic direction.
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The new Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation OA policy; a Q&A with Ashley Farley

In January 2025 the new Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation open access policy will go into effect.
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ASAPbio Community Call: Preprints & the Global South

Preprints and the wider open science landscape has made great strides over the past decade.
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July 2024 Community Call – Research integrity, trust markers & forensic scientometrics with Dr Leslie McIntosh

At our next Community call, on 17 July 2024, we will discuss the importance of trust markers and research integrity in addition to the newly proposed field of forensic scientometrics.
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May 2024 Community Call – AI in preprints and publishing with Josh Nicholson

At our next Community call, on 22 May 2024, we will discuss the use of AI in publishing and preprints.
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Preprints across the globe; landscapes, perceptions and challenges with Ludo Waltman

At our next Community call, on 19 March 2024, we will discuss the globalization of preprints.
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Preprints across the globe; landscapes, perceptions and challenges with Ludo Waltman

At our next Community call, on 19 March 2024, we will discuss the globalization of preprints.
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January 2024 Community Call – Connecting the dots – linking preprints to other outputs with Martyn Rittman

At our first Community call of 2024, on 24 Jan, we will discuss the linking of preprints to other outputs.
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The trials and tribulations of post publication peer review

At our Community call on 20 November 2023, we hosted a discussion on the recent high-profile examples of the dangers to preprint commenting and highlighting of research misconduct.
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November 2023 Community Call – The trials and tribulations of post publication peer review

20 November 2023 at 11am EST/8am PST/4pm GMT/5pm CET At our next Community call on 20 November 2023, we will host a discussion on the recent high-profile examples of the […]
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Community and commercialization in biomedical preprint servers

27th October 2023 8.00-9.30am PST / 11.00-12.30 EST / 4.00-5.30pm UK This year’s open access week theme, “Community over Commercialization,” is relevant to not only journals but also other parts […]
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Perspectives on preprint peer review models

Preprint peer review services have substantially increased in recent years.
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September 2023 Community Call – Perspectives on preprint peer review models

18 September 2023 at 8am San Francisco / 11am New York / 3pm UTC / 4pm London / 5pm Berlin / 8:30pm Mumbai At our next Community call on 18 […]
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Driving recognition of preprints in research assessment

The recognition of preprints by publishers has been a significant step in preprints becoming common usage in the life sciences.
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May community call: Learning from community preprint adoption in the social sciences

Tuesday, May 30, 9am San Francisco / 12pm New York / 4pm UTC / 5pm London / 6pm Berlin / 9:30pm Mumbai Compared to other disciplines, biologists are preprint novices.
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ASAPbio – SciELO 25 Years Seminar

Preprints promote the rapid and open sharing of research, typically prior to formal peer review.
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ASAPbio’s NIH RFI information session and response workshop

The US NIH has released a Request for Information (RFI) about its proposed public access policy (https://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/notice-files/NOT-OD-23-091.html).
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Spotlight on preprint community projects

The passion and ingenuity of the ASAPbio Community members has been critical in driving awareness and adoption of preprints across the life sciences.
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March Community Call – Spotlight on preprint community projects

The passion and ingenuity of our community members has been critical in driving awareness and adoption of preprints across the life sciences.
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Preprints in Japan and China: perspectives from Jxiv and Sciencepaper Online

The popularity and acceptance of preprints vary among scientific disciplines and geographical regions.
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January Community Call – Preprints in Japan and China: perspectives from Jxiv and Sciencepaper Online

The popularity and acceptance of preprints vary among scientific disciplines and geographical regions.
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Promoting equity in visibility, curation and evaluation of preprints

Preprints are freely accessible, but there are persistent disparities in the visibility and attention paid to preprints according to the authors’ institutions, geographical area, language and other backgrounds.
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Preprints in Progress

At our Community call in June, we explored how we can expand the use of preprints beyond the deposition of papers ready for journal submission.
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Data sharing with preprints – where do we stand and where next?

At our March Community call , we discussed data sharing with preprints.
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Posting journal-solicited reviews on preprints

Publish Your Reviews is an initiative emerging from the July 2021 #FeedbackASAP meeting that encourages researchers to post journal-commissioned reviews publicly as comments on preprints whenever the reviewed article is available as […]
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Understanding geographical disparities in preprint trends

While the use of preprints in the life sciences is increasing, disparities in adoption remain.
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Bringing culture change to science communication

Preprints are often discussed in the context of broader culture change in science communication.
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‘Why do some researchers have reservations about preprints? Let’s ask them’

While the use of preprints in the life sciences is increasing, some researchers have concerns about posting their own work to a preprint server or more generally about the use […]
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ASAPbio strategic direction & plans for 2021

At our January 2021 Community Call, we will provide an overview of our vision and strategic goals.
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‘Preprint journal clubs – the nuts and bolts’

This Community Call covered preprint journal clubs.
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Explore our archive of past meetings

ASAPbio regularly convenes workshops, town halls, and other major gatherings to bring together stakeholders across the life sciences including academia, publishing, and industry.

‘Supporting interoperability of preprint peer review metadata’ workshop

At the ‘Supporting interoperability of preprint peer review metadata’ workshop, held on October 17 & 18 at Hinxton Hall, UK, and co-organized by Europe PMC and ASAPbio, representatives from preprint review projects, infrastructure [&hellip...
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Recognizing Preprint Peer Review (2022)

Public review of preprints offers many benefits.
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#FeedbackASAP (2021)

Public feedback on preprints can unlock their full potential to accelerate science.
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Preprints in the Public Eye (2021)

Read the #PreprintsInThePublicEye meeting summary.
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#PreprintSprint (2020)

November 13 & December 3, 2020 | Online Community feedback on preprints makes rapid science more robust.
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#bioPreprints2020 (2020)

ASAPbio January 2020 workshop: A Roadmap for Transparent and FAIR Preprints in Biology and Medicine January 20-21, 2020 EMBL-EBI, Hinxton, UK (This workshop has now happened: please see the meeting report) […]
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Peer Review (2018)

Read a summary of the meeting here Over the last 50 years, journal-conducted peer review has become the foundation of how scientific work is evaluated and validated.
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Evolving Preprint Ecosystem (2017)

This meeting was held at the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in Cambridge, MA on Wednesday, July 19, 2017 from 10:30am – 5:30pm EDT.
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Scientific Society Preprint Town Hall (2017)

The ASAPbio Scientific Society Preprint Town Hall was held on Thursday, February 23, 2017 at the National Academy of Sciences Building in Washington DC (2101 Constitution Avenue, N.W., Washington, DC).
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Technical Workshop (2016)

The report from the workshop has been published (pdf archived 2/1/2017) ASAPbio (Accelerating Science and Publication in biology) will host a Preprint Service Technical Workshop at the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in Cambridge, MA [&he...
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Funders’ Workshop (2016)

Preprints advance global knowledge and serve the public good.
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Preprint Meeting (2016)

On February 16th and 17th, 2016, ~70 members of the science community, young and old, leaders and trainees, and representatives of journals, scientific societies, academic institutions, and funding agencies, convened at […]
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