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HHMI Enacts “Immediate Access to Research” Policy for Its Scientists

The Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) is requiring its scientists to post their research articles as preprints under an open license that allows unrestricted reuse (CC-BY-4.0). Optional immediately and fully effective January 1, 2026, most HHMI labs will be affected by the policy, including HHMI Investigators, Freeman Hrabowski Scholars, and scientists at the Janelia Research Campus, when a lab member is first, last, or cor...

Oct 08, 2025

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Different Methods of Identifying Preprint Matches Yield Diverging Estimates of Rates of Preprinting

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.

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Recent Drop in Life Science Preprint Posting Due to Capacity Problems at Research Square

The best tool for tracking the quantity of preprints in the life sciences is Europe PMC, an open database that allows discovery of over 925,000 preprints. Europe PMC indexes metadata (such as title, abstract, authors) for 34 different preprint servers, as well as full text for a subset of servers. Europe PMC also displays a data dashboard, updated monthly, depicting the overall volume of pr...

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Laying the foundation for preprints at EMBL – an interview with Victoria Yan

Victoria Yan started her preprint advocate journey as the Project Coordinator for ASAPbio’s ReimagineReview. She is now an Open Science Research Information Specialist at EMBL in Heidelberg, Germany.

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2023: Another successful year for the ASAPbio Fellows

In 2023 we progressed 38 people through the third installment of the ASAPbio Fellows program. Together this group participated in cohort calls to provide fundamental knowledge and training around preprints in addition to multiple projects, which we celebrate here. The adoption of preprints across the globe has not been equitable, with m...

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Publishing and preprints as part of graduation requirements across the globe

Since the launch of bioRxiv in 2013, preprints have seen an explosion in use and adoption across the life sciences. Preprints now represent ~10% of the biomedical literature and are seeing increasing recognition across funding bodies, policy makers, academics and universities in promotion and hiring decisions.

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