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Blog Category: Community Call

ASAPbio September 2025 Community  Call: Experiments in publishing with PubPub & Octopus
During the September Community Call, we heard from Alex Freeman from Octopus and Gabe Stein from PubPub.  The meeting started with Alex Freeman, who first introduced the Octopus platform. Alex discussed how academic problems all reflect how things are published.
Oct 07, 2025
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ASAPbio July Community Call: Replacing Academic Journals with Björn Brembs

Aug 30, 2025
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.
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ASAPbio May Community Call: Tackling industrial scale research fraud parallels with virus control with Dorothy Bishop

Jun 20, 2025
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...
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ASAPbio April Community Call: A discussion on openRxiv with Richard Sever

May 15, 2025
The April Community Call discussion focused on the past, present, and future of bioRxiv, medRxiv, and openRxiv. We were joined by Richard Sever, co-founder of bioRxiv and medRxiv and CSSO at openRxiv, preprint servers focusing on biology and biomedical science, which started at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory.  Richard summarized the past 12 years of those ...
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ASAPbio March Community Call: Institutional Recognition of Preprints

May 12, 2025
Our Community Call on March 26, 2025, focused on the topic of institutional recognition of preprints, which is one of the key barriers to the broader adoption of preprints. Our first speaker, Michael Dougherty, Professor and Department Chair of Psychology at the College of Behavioral and Social Sciences, University of Maryland, represented HELIOS (Higher Education Leadership Initiative for Open Scholarship).
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ASAPbio February Community Call: Six ways to share preprint reviews

Apr 29, 2025
A recent ASAPbio Community Call (February 26, 2025) was inspired by a preprint titled ‘Mapping the preprint review metadata transfer workflows.’ The preprint is a working group product borne out of the, ‘Supporting interoperability of preprint ... Maria presented first, defining preprint review metadata as “all kinds of information about the review record,” e.g., reviewer name, affiliation, link to preprint being reviewed, review outcome, assigned score, and more.
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