Blog Category: ASAPbio news

Take cOAlition S’s survey by the November 29th deadline to support a new model of publishing cOAlition S, an initiative of more than 2 dozen national funders and charitable organizations, has recently released the “Towards Responsible Publishing�... The two key features of this proposal, as stated in an introductory blog post, are: 1.

“[T]he Federation of American Scientists (FAS) is partnering with the Center for Open Science and the Wilson Center to source ideas that can chart a course for the next decade of U.S. government action.” See below our response to the call.

Culture change happens within communities. While virtual programs like the ASAPbio Fellows and Community calls link preprint enthusiasts across continents, nothing beats face-to-face interactions.

These events have now been announced! See details and sign up to attend Network with colleagues in your subfield attending Cell Bio 2023 while celebrating the release of the latest papers at Preprint Launch Parties, a series of events ASAPbio will host in Boston from December 2-6.  ...

According to Katharine Sanderson, “publishing-industry representatives warn” that May’s EU Council call for a “no pay” academic publishing model is “unrealistic and lack[ing] detail”. However, the proposal is already being implemented via several approaches:  (i) Authors can publish their work for free in ‘Diamond’ Open Access (OA) journals.

Everyone should have free and immediate access to research results, especially when they are publicly funded. Preprints are one way to share papers immediately and without cost to authors and readers, but much of the peer reviewed literature is ... 552 from the House appropriations bill.