Blog Category: ASAPbio news

The report from the August 30th ASAPbio Technical Workshop has been published on January 16, 2017 in Rio Journal. Along with a summary of the day’s discussions (which are also available to view online), the report contains a the authors’ synthesis of key principles and recommendations for preprint technology development (found in Table 3): General princ...

Dear subscribers, We need your help for an urgent action this week. The NIH released a RFI (request for information) on “including preprints and interim research products in the NIH applications and reports.”  ASAPbio, and many individual scientists, responded with arguments in favor of provid...

1/19/2017 update: We will close the signature drive at 9pm EST on Sunday, 1/22/2017. The NIH released a RFI (request for information) on “including preprints and interim research products in the NIH applications and reports.”  ASAPbio, and many individual scientists, responded with arguments in favor of providing scientists ...

At the ASAPbio Funders’ Workshop in May of 2016, representatives of funding agencies requested that ASAPbio “develop a proposal describing the governance, infrastructure and standards desired for a preprint service that represents the views of th... Three separate processes are now ongoing to define this service: We expect that these three processes will result in the release of a Request for Applications (RFA) to invite potential suppliers or consortia of suppliers to submit proposals for the p...

Dear ASAPbio subscriber, The NIH has recently released a request for information (RFI) on the use of preprints and other interim research products. We encourage all interested parties to respond to the RFI using the submission website by the deadline of December 9th (extended from November 29th).

Note: the RFI is now closed. The NIH has announced a policy that encourages the use of preprints.