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Text on a red background reads: Introducing a prototype directory of organizations and initiatives in open scholarly communication. White geometric lines decorate the corners.

Introducing a Prototype Directory of Organizations and Initiatives in Open Scholarly Communication

Keeping current on organizations and initiatives that are active in the area of open scholarly communication is challenging. Like other parts of the open science community, the open scholarly communications landscape is decentralized, fast-paced, and constantly evolving.
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Announcing the ASAPbio 2024 poster competition

Share your research results, data, ideas, or tools for a chance to win one of two $500 cash prizes Current publishing practices don’t reflect the often disorderly trajectory of scientific research. Negative data, unreplicated results, or early-stage ideas are often omitted from the scientific narrative in pursuit of acceptance into a reputable journal.
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ASAPbio Digital Badges; Recognising the efforts of our community members

Being part of the ASAPbio community is an enourmously enriching experience. We know how awesome the community is as we get to work with incredible individuals every day.
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A hands-on preprint workshop

This blog post was written by Aneth Bella David, a 2023 ASAPbio Fellow, and reports on a recently completed community project. The landscape of scholarly communication is rapidly evolving, with preprints emerging as a transformative tool for research dissemination worldwide.
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What Do Researchers Think about Scholarly Publishing? Five Key Takeaways from a New Survey by cOAlition S

A comprehensive and high quality survey of researcher attitudes toward the scholarly publishing process was published last week. The joint product of a consultation with Research Consulting and the Centre for Science and Technology Studies (CWTS) Leiden, a wide-ranging report on the survey, along with the complete dataset and survey materials, are now available.
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Webpage showcasing Gracielle Higinos academic publications. Includes titles, authors, and categories for studies on ecological genetics, conservation biology, and information systems in science. Publications are dated June and July 2024.

A crowdsourced kind peer review guide for ECRs in Ecology and Evolution

This is a post written by Gracielle Higino about her community project that was funded in 2023. I was tired of hearing students and colleagues sharing their bad experiences with reviewers.
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