At a meeting held on the 3rd December 2025 at Kings College, Cambridge over 50 delegates, comprising researchers, publishers, librarians, research funders and scholarly communication infrastructure providers, came together to discuss the Publish, Rev... The meeting, which was organised by COAR and the University of Cambridge Library and Archives with contributions from ASAPbio, aimed to showcase various PRC initiatives from around the world and illustrate its many benefits such as increased rigour, ...
A group of attendees of ASAPbio have published a commentary in the “Policy Forum” section of the journal Science on May 20, 2016. Written by scientists and representatives from journals and funding agencies, the paper serves as a meeting report and summary of opinions on the use of preprints in the life sciences.
Correction: This paper contains a sentence stating that “the median review time at journals has grown from 85 days to >150 days during the past decade.” This is true of Nature, but not journals as a whole. Daniel Himmelstein’s analysis shows that delays across all journals have remained stable.
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