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Dear subscribers, It’s been a big month for preprints! On March 24, the world’s largest biomedical research agency released a landmark policy on preprints and other interim research products.

Dear subscribers, Last month, we held a Town Hall meeting for Scientific Societies at NAS in Washington, DC. The meeting featured presentations by representatives of ASAPbio, NIH, and scientific societies who are innovating with preprints and publishing.

Dear subscribers, Since the summer of 2016, ASAPbio has been iterating on a proposal for a “Central Service” for life sciences preprints, a database that would aggregate preprints from multiple sources and make them easier to access by human... We explain the benefits of such a service in a recent blog post.

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...

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).

Dear ASAPbio subscriber, Here’s what’s new: Please let us know if you hear of any exciting developments in preprints in life sciences! Jessica Jessica Polka, PhD Director, ASAPbio