Blog Category: Preprints

In line with our mission to accelerate research communication, we believe that preprints can provide a valuable tool to accelerate research if used to share ongoing or preliminary work well in advance of journal submission. To inform how we can best support early sharing of preprints and understand what concerns may arise about this practice, we ran a survey asking for input on the motivations, potential concerns, and the type of feedback preprint authors wish to receiv...

Following our successful trial last year, we are thrilled to announce that ASAPbio will pursue crowd preprint review activities in 2022. Join us in supporting public feedback on preprints by becoming a crowd preprint reviewer!

The ASAPbio Community Action Group chaired by Marco Fumasoni (Harvard University, US) and Sarah Stryeck (University of Technology, Graz and Know-Center GmbH Austria), both 2020 ASAPbio Fellows kicked off in March 2021. As we approach the one-year mark, we wanted to celebrate the group’s accomplishments in its first year and share our plans for 2022.

During the pandemic, research communication and progress has accelerated through the massively increased posting of preprints. The increased use of preprints is a positive development, however, most preprints still take the form of traditional research papers posted shortly before or in parallel to their submission to a journal.

We’re thrilled to open applications for the 2022 ASAPbio Fellows program. Interested in a deep dive into the preprint landscape?

As open scholarship practices grow, dedicated preprint servers are springing up in many disciplines. However, researchers are also depositing preprints in other platforms, including institutional and generalist repositories.