Dear ASAPbio subscriber, It’s been an exciting few months at ASAPbio! Here’s what’s happened: Finally, effective 8/1, I’m now serving as full-time director of ASAPbio!

Central Service model documents We will continue to engage the scientific community on what services they want to see in a next generation of preprints. However, based upon a survey that ASAPbio conducted in May 2016 (Results summary (pdf) and Anonymized responses (xls)) and other resources (e.g.

Central Service model documents Because the preprint server arXiv was born very early in the history of the internet and served its community well, it has become the de facto repository for preprints in the physical, mathematics and computer sciences... During the past two decades, various scientific disciplines decided to join arXiv rather than start their own servers.

ASAPbio is iteratively seeking community feedback on a draft model for a Central Preprint Service. We will integrate community and stakeholder feedback into a proposal, containing several model variants, to funders this fall.

This announcement was originally posted on the Simons Foundation website. On June 20, four foundations announced their support for ASAPbio (Accelerating Science and Publication in Biology), a scientist-driven effort with a mission to promote the use of preprints in the life sciences.

Tony Hyman and ASAPbio founder Ron Vale have just published a Point of View in eLife building on their earlier blog post. ABSTRACT: The job of a scientist is to make a discovery and then communicate this new knowledge to others.