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This handbook is designed to support librarians in becoming champions for open science in their communities. It includes an introduction to preprints and how librarians can promote them to faculty and graduate students. Additionally, librarians will have access to a slide deck and other resources to help them on their journey. This handbook was completed as part of the ASAPbio Residency Program.
This preprint reports on a study evaluating the experiences and perceptions of participants in the ASAPbio Crowd Preprint Review initiative, an international community-driven preprint review program.
Bjorn Brembs discusses the problems with the current academic journal system and the potential solutions to replacing this broken system, including a procurement and tender system.
ASAPbio and Creative Commons have collaborated to create 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.
We present a symposium of six talks from the Metascience 2025 meeting in London, UK. Katie Corker (ASAPbio) discusses what the publish-review-curate (PRC) model of publishing is. Fiona Hutton (eLife), André Brasil (MetaROR), and Eileen Clancy (Center for Open Science) present their different approaches to PRC. Vanessa Fairhurst (PREreview) and Anna Hatch (HHMI) discuss training programs to support open research evaluation and curation.
We hosted Prof. Dorothy Bishop who discussed predatory publishers and paper mills and how we can begin to tackle this industrial scale research fraud.