On February 16th and 17th, 2016, ~70 members of the science community, young and old, leaders and trainees, and representatives of journals, scientific societies, academic institutions, and funding agencies, convened at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute in Chevy Chase, Maryland to discuss ways in which “preprints” might facilitate the communication of biological research. Survey results Draft […]

Preprints advance global knowledge and serve the public good. They should be collected, maintained and distributed by an archive that fulfills this mission. On May 24th, 2016, representatives of funding agencies and existing preprint servers as well as junior and senior scientists met at the NIH to coordinate their efforts in providing a preprint service for the biology […]

The report from the workshop has been published (pdf archived 2/1/2017) ASAPbio (Accelerating Science and Publication in biology) will host a Preprint Service Technical Workshop at the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in Cambridge, MA on Tuesday, August 30, 2016. This one day meeting will be a gathering of technical representatives from existing preprint servers, repositories, aggregators, libraries, and other […]

The ASAPbio Scientific Society Preprint Town Hall was held on Thursday, February 23, 2017 at the National Academy of Sciences Building in Washington DC (2101 Constitution Avenue, N.W., Washington, DC). Scientific societies have long served researchers by providing them with opportunities to share unpublished data through poster and oral presentations at meetings. Today’s technology enables […]

This meeting was held at the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in Cambridge, MA on Wednesday, July 19, 2017 from 10:30am – 5:30pm EDT. It was live-streamed. The preprint ecosystem is growing rapidly. The CZI/bioRxiv partnership will fuel the expansion of the leading preprint server in the life sciences. Many other servers and platforms exist […]

Read a summary of the meeting here Over the last 50 years, journal-conducted peer review has become the foundation of how scientific work is evaluated and validated. With an interest in fairness and transparency, mounting concerns about rigor and reproducibility, and opportunities provided by the internet, we feel that the time is ripe to discuss how […]

ASAPbio January 2020 workshop: A Roadmap for Transparent and FAIR Preprints in Biology and Medicine January 20-21, 2020 EMBL-EBI, Hinxton, UK (This workshop has now happened: please see the meeting report) Preprints offer an opportunity to advance science through accelerating communication and supporting discourse that enables research integrity and reproducibility. At the January 2020 ASAPbio workshop, […]

November 13 & December 3, 2020 | Online Community feedback on preprints makes rapid science more robust. Review and commentary can help authors improve their articles; curation can provide readers with helpful context and enhance discoverability. But despite the benefits, barriers to reviewing and curating preprints remain. Potential reviewers and curators see few incentives to organize […]

Read the #PreprintsInThePublicEye meeting summary. While misinformation and misinterpretation of research have been around for a long time, it is no understatement that this ‘Age of Misinformation’ has reached its height in 2020. It has never been so easy to misinterpret or be misinformed about what is going on in the world. There has been […]

Public feedback on preprints can unlock their full potential to accelerate science. Public preprint review can help authors improve their paper, find new collaborators, and gain visibility. It also helps readers find interesting and relevant papers and contextualize them with the reactions of experts in the field. Never has this been more apparent than in […]

Public review of preprints offers many benefits. It enables reviewers to focus on the science itself, allows authors to engage in constructive dialog with reviewers, and provides context on preprints for readers. cOAlition S and EMBO Postdoctoral Fellowships have recently announced that they recognize peer-reviewed preprints as peer-reviewed publications, and some journals are accepting reviews from services such as Peer […]

At the ‘Supporting interoperability of preprint peer review metadata’ workshop, held on October 17 & 18 at Hinxton Hall, UK, and co-organized by Europe PMC and ASAPbio, representatives from preprint review projects, infrastructure providers, publishers, funders, and other stakeholders convened to collaboratively determine the key elements of preprint review metadata and mechanisms for sharing this information. Over two […]