According to Katharine Sanderson, “publishing-industry representatives warn” that May’s EU Council call for a “no pay” academic publishing model is “unrealistic and lack[ing] detail”. However, the proposal is already being implemented via several approaches:  (i) Authors can publish their work for free in ‘Diamond’ Open Access (OA) journals.

As the fall conference season approaches, consider maximizing the impact of your talk or poster by posting it as a preprint! While you can also archive your slides or the image of your poster on Zenodo, Figshare, or another repository (a great way to increase your visibility and get a DOI), there are several benefits to writing up your work in a narrative article: But don�...

Everyone should have free and immediate access to research results, especially when they are publicly funded. Preprints are one way to share papers immediately and without cost to authors and readers, but much of the peer reviewed literature is ... 552 from the House appropriations bill.

Our fourth Community Call of 2023 featured a discussion about the use of preprints in research assessment. The adoption of any product or innovation requires the presence of appropriate incentives and preprints are no different.

Different institutions around the world have varying requirements for PhD students to graduate. Some require a thesis whilst others require published papers (or several!).

Interested in honing your peer review skills while providing valuable feedback to preprint authors? Then join one of our preprint review crowds!  Following our two previous cycles of preprint review activities, we are thrilled to announce that ASAPbio will host more crowd preprint review activities in 2023.