NIH seeks to reduce its publishing expenses, while encouraging high quality research, in order to be good stewards of its limited public funding. Certainly, high costs are one important downside of the current research publishing system.

During our recent Community Call, Björn Brembs, a professor at the Universität Regensburg in Germany, discussed problems with the current landscape of scientific publishing. Björn believes that the issue with journals is not accessibility since we have developed many ways to get around paywalls in recent years.

ASAPbio is seeking several new members for our Board of Directors to support our mission to drive positive change in science communication. Read more about ASAPbio here to learn more about our vision, values, and history.

ASAPbio and Creative Commons are pleased to announce the launch of the Preprint Policy Framework for research funders and research performing organizations. The framework consists of six components that align funder and organizational policies to promote open, reusable, timely, and rigorous research communication.

By Katie Corker (ASAPbio) and Ludo Waltman (Centre for Science and Technology Studies, Leiden University)Each year, more research papers are published as preprints. However, this growth is occurring when the number of journal articles is also rapidly increasing.

During the May Community Call, we welcomed Dorothy Bishop, Emeritus Professor of Developmental Neuropsychology. Dorothy themed her talk around fraudulent behaviors in science, likening them to a virus that can infiltrate and be disruptive, a concept she had been thinking about during the COVID lockdown.  Dorothy began by discussing the common misconceptio...