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Blog Category: Preprints

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ASAPbio competition: Make your negative result a preprint winner

Do you have data buried in your lab notebooks that did not prove your hypothesis but would be useful to your scientific field? Or perhaps inconclusive results due to technological limitations which would be relevant for others to avoid duplicating efforts? Preprints allow sharing of all research works in a flexible format; this includes negative or inconclusive results...

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Want to drive conversations about preprints in your own language? Reuse & translate preprint resources

ASAPbio aims to provide researchers with information and resources that can help them make productive use of preprints. Our Preprint Resource Center hosts materials such as videos, the Preprint FAQ and a wonderful set of preprint infographics developed by ASAPbio Fellows, which you can find at asapbio.org/preprint-info#infographics.

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‘Preprints and open science’ workshop – Raising awareness about preprints in Sudan

On July 19, the Medicinal and Aromatics and Traditional Medicine Research Institute, National Center for Research, in Khartoum (Sudan), hosted a workshop about preprints and open science. The event was sponsored by ASAPbio and aimed to raise awareness around preprints among the local community of researchers, help them build skills about a productive use of preprints, and learn more about their place within open science.

Banner for ASAPbio Community Call August 2022, featuring Bianca Kramer from Sesame Open Science and Maurine Neiman from University of Iowa. Text: Promoting equity in visibility, curation and evaluation of preprints.

How to promote equity in the visibility, curation and evaluation of preprints? – Key takeaways from the ASAPbio Community Call

Whether a preprint will get noticed depends on many factors. Ideally, the quality or the relevance of its scientific findings will be of primary importance, but this is not always the case. There are many disparities in how preprints (and science in general) get attention.

A man speaking at an online workshop titled Research assessment and preprints in India. A globe with the word Preprints and a map of India is displayed on the left.

Research assessment and preprints in India: Workshop summary

On June 7th ASAPbio hosted a workshop in collaboration with IndiaBioscience and Open Access India, to discuss preprints and the value they can add to research assessment frameworks in India. ASAPbio works to drive open and innovative communication in the life sciences and promotes the productive use of preprints.

Online workshop titled Research assessment and preprints in India. Its for Indian researchers to discuss assessment frameworks and preprints opportunities. Scheduled for Tuesday, June 7, 2022, from 5:00 pm to 6:30 pm IST. Register now.

Research assessment frameworks in India: Assessing the role of preprints

Preprints are increasingly used, but we know that their use varies widely across geographical regions (Abdill et al.). The countries where the use of preprints is most widespread overlap with those where funding organizations and institutions have signaled support for preprints for the dissemination of research works.

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