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SUMMARY:January 2024 Community Call – Connecting the dots – linking preprints to other outputs with Martyn Rittman
DESCRIPTION:At our first Community call of 2024\, on 24 Jan\, we will discuss the linking of preprints to other outputs. The research community produces multiple outputs relating to any individual research project including data sets\, methodologies and protocols\, peer reviews\, outreach or media and more. Linking these many outputs to the preprint is very important for reproducibility and for readers. One of the companies at the center of linking these outputs is Crossref and in this month’s community call\, we will hear from Martyn Rittman (Crossref) about how preprints are linked to other outputs. \nSpeakers: \n\nMartyn Rittman\, Crossref
URL:https://asapbio.org/event/connecting-the-dots-linking-preprints-to-other-outputs/
CATEGORIES:Community Call
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20231120T170000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20231120T180000
DTSTAMP:20260128T170311
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LAST-MODIFIED:20250325T170636Z
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SUMMARY:The trials and tribulations of post publication peer review
DESCRIPTION:At our Community call on 20 November 2023\, we hosted a discussion on the recent high-profile examples of the dangers to preprint commenting and highlighting of research misconduct. \nAs preprint reviewing and commenting increasingly drives the push towards transparency\, these topics become ever more important. We heard from Lonni Besancon who has conducted multiple meta-research projects and written opinion pieces focussed on unreliable science or fraudulent data. In response to his rigorous and scientific approaches\, Lonni has faced lawsuits and attacks from senior scientists. This session involved a short talk from Lonni about his experiences followed by a longer discussion with all attendees around the theme of post publication review and how\, as a community\, we should engage with fraudulent or unreliable science and protect those who identify such work. \nSpeakers: \nLonni Besancon
URL:https://asapbio.org/event/the-trials-and-tribulations-of-post-publication-peer-review/
CATEGORIES:Community Call
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20231120T160000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20231120T170000
DTSTAMP:20260128T170311
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SUMMARY:November 2023 Community Call – The trials and tribulations of post publication peer review
DESCRIPTION:20 November 2023 at 11am EST/8am PST/4pm GMT/5pm CET \nAt our next Community call on 20 November 2023\, we will host a discussion on the recent high-profile examples of the dangers to preprint commenting and highlighting of research misconduct. As preprint reviewing and commenting increasingly drives the push towards transparency\, these topics become ever more important. We will hear from Lonni Besancon who has conducted multiple meta-research projects and written opinion pieces focussed on unreliable science or fraudulent data. In response to his rigorous and scientific approaches\, Lonni has faced lawsuits and attacks from senior scientists. This session will involve a short talk from Lonni about his experiences followed by a longer discussion with all attendees around the theme of post publication review and how\, as a community\, we should engage with fraudulent or unreliable science and protect those who identify such work.
URL:https://asapbio.org/event/community-call-the-trials-and-tribulations-of-post-publication-peer-review-2/
CATEGORIES:Community Call
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20231027T160000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20231027T173000
DTSTAMP:20260128T170311
CREATED:20250319T234032Z
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SUMMARY:Community and commercialization in biomedical preprint servers
DESCRIPTION:27th October 2023 8.00-9.30am PST / 11.00-12.30 EST / 4.00-5.30pm UK \nThis year’s open access week theme\, “Community over Commercialization\,” is relevant to not only journals but also other parts of the scholarly communication infrastructure. There are now over 50 preprint servers for the biomedical community\, many of which—including the largest by monthly volume\, Research Square—are owned or closely affiliated with for-profit publishers. By owning servers\, publishers can seamlessly integrate preprints into the journal submission workflow\, thereby normalizing preprinting and helping the concept reach new audiences. While for-profit ownership raises questions about a server’s integration with other services\, responsiveness to community needs\, and adherence to principles of open scholarship\, these issues are in fact relevant to non-profit entities as well. In this event\, we will discuss principles for open infrastructure and how different preprint servers interact with their communities. \nYou can register for the event here. \nAgenda:\n\n\n\n\nTime\nItem\n\n\n5 mins\nIntro + welcome\n\n\n20 mins\nJennifer Lin: Commercialisation\, open access and preprint servers\n\n\n40 mins\n“Promoting community needs and sustainability”\nPanel Discussion with preprint servers: ResearchSquare\, arXiv\, SSRN\nModerated by: Jonny Coates (ASAPbio)\n\n\n20 mins\nWhiteboard activity: Sustainability of preprint servers\n\n\n5 mins\nClosing remarks
URL:https://asapbio.org/event/1436/
CATEGORIES:Community Call
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20231017T080000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20231018T170000
DTSTAMP:20260128T170311
CREATED:20250330T173840Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250330T173840Z
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SUMMARY:'Supporting interoperability of preprint peer review metadata’ workshop
DESCRIPTION: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 days\, participants engaged in discussions on their visions of an ideal system\, the metadata elements that should be included\, the technical protocols and the next steps to take.
URL:https://asapbio.org/event/supporting-interoperability-of-preprint-peer-review-metadata-workshop/
CATEGORIES:Meeting
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20230918T170000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20230918T180000
DTSTAMP:20260128T170311
CREATED:20250324T160038Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250325T170850Z
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SUMMARY:Perspectives on preprint peer review models
DESCRIPTION:Preprint peer review services have substantially increased in recent years. Each service operates in a different way\, with some partnering with journals\, some focussed on providing authors with reviews and some like a traditional journal. \nIn January 2023\, eLife became the first journal to shift it’s model toward providing reviews of preprints. PLOS Biology has partnered with a number of preprint peer review services to expedite the peer review process at their journals. In this call\, we will hear about how these two journals have interacted with preprint peer review and how the editors and research community have adapted. There will be a Q&A session followed by an interactive whiteboard activity to collate the perspectives of attendees towards preprint peer review. \nSpeakers: \n\nFiona Hutton\, Head of Publishing\, eLife\nNonia Pariente\, Editor in Chief\, PLOS Biology
URL:https://asapbio.org/event/perspectives-on-preprint-peer-review-models/
CATEGORIES:Community Call
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20230918T160000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20230918T170000
DTSTAMP:20260128T170311
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LAST-MODIFIED:20250319T235239Z
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SUMMARY:September 2023 Community Call –  Perspectives on preprint peer review models
DESCRIPTION:18 September 2023 at 8am San Francisco / 11am New York / 3pm UTC / 4pm London / 5pm Berlin / 8:30pm Mumbai \nAt our next Community call on 18 September 2023\, we will discuss perspectives on preprint peer review models. Preprint peer review services have substantially increased in recent years. Each service operates in a different way\, with some partnering with journals\, some focussed on providing authors with reviews and some like a traditional journal. In January 2023\, eLife became the first journal to shift it’s model toward providing reviews of preprints. PLOS Biology has partnered with a number of preprint peer review services to expedite the peer review process at their journals. In this call\, we will hear about how these two journals have interacted with preprint peer review and how the editors and research community have adapted. There will be a Q&A session followed by an interactive whiteboard activity to collate the perspectives of attendees towards preprint peer review. \nSpeakers:\nFiona Hutton\, Head of Publishing\, eLife\nNonia Pariente\, Editor in Chief\, PLOS Biology
URL:https://asapbio.org/event/community-call-perspective-on-preprint-peer-review/
CATEGORIES:Community Call
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20230726T170000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20230726T180000
DTSTAMP:20260128T170311
CREATED:20250324T160204Z
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SUMMARY:Driving recognition of preprints in research assessment
DESCRIPTION:The recognition of preprints by publishers has been a significant step in preprints becoming common usage in the life sciences. \nIn more recent years\, funding bodies and hiring committees have implemented policies recognising preprints as valid research outputs and as evidence in grant or job applications. We will hear from Hannah Hope (Open research lead\, Wellcome Trust) and Needhi Bhalla (Professor\, UCSC) about how funders are recognising preprints in research and researcher assessment and why this is such an important step for equity and diversity efforts. \nWednesday\, 26 July\, 9am San Francisco / 12pm New York / 4pm UTC / 5pm London / 6pm Berlin / 9:30pm Mumbai \nSpeakers: \n\nHannah Hope\, Open research lead\, Wellcome Trust\nNeedhi Bhalla\, Professor\, University of California Santa Cruz
URL:https://asapbio.org/event/driving-recognition-of-preprints-in-research-assessment/
CATEGORIES:Community Call
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20230530T040000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20230530T170000
DTSTAMP:20260128T170311
CREATED:20250319T235640Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250325T171117Z
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SUMMARY:May community call: Learning from community preprint adoption in the social sciences
DESCRIPTION:Tuesday\, May 30\, 9am San Francisco / 12pm New York / 4pm UTC / 5pm London / 6pm Berlin / 9:30pm Mumbai \nCompared to other disciplines\, biologists are preprint novices. For example\, social scientists have been posting working papers to SSRN since 1994. But much has changed in the social sciences publishing landscape since that time\, and a new wave of community preprint servers have launched over the last decade. In this interactive session\, we will hear from preprint advocates in the social sciences about their community’s perceptions of the benefits and potential pitfalls of preprints. In discussing the strategies they’ve used to build communities of preprint users\, we’ll identify areas of common ground with the life sciences and learn from their unique experiences in driving a more open publishing culture. \nSpeakers: \n\nGrace Binion\, Assistant Professor of Psychology\, Furman University\, and Scientific Advisory Board Member of PsyArXiv\nPhilip Cohen\, Sociologist and demographer\, University of Maryland\, and Director of SocArXiv
URL:https://asapbio.org/event/may-community-call-learning-from-community-preprint-adoption-in-the-social-sciences/
CATEGORIES:Community Call
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20230425T110000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20230425T120000
DTSTAMP:20260128T170311
CREATED:20250319T235935Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250319T235935Z
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SUMMARY:ASAPbio – SciELO 25 Years Seminar
DESCRIPTION:Preprints promote the rapid and open sharing of research\, typically prior to formal peer review. However\, they also carry another benefit: they enable peer review to proceed in new and more productive ways. Open feedback and review of preprints can promote more rigorous and informative evaluation that involves broader participation from the scholarly community. In this session\, we will explore different approaches to public feedback on preprints and a vision for a future in which they change the structure of scientific communication to promote collaboration at earlier stages in the research cycle.
URL:https://asapbio.org/event/asapbio-scielo-25-years-seminar/
CATEGORIES:Community Call
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20230418T140000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20230418T150000
DTSTAMP:20260128T170311
CREATED:20250319T235844Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250319T235844Z
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SUMMARY:ASAPbio’s NIH RFI information session and response workshop
DESCRIPTION:The US NIH has released a Request for Information (RFI) about its proposed public access policy (https://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/notice-files/NOT-OD-23-091.html). \nThis is an important opportunity for researchers and other community members to voice support for open access and open science. Responses\, which can be written by anyone\, are due April 24. \nJoin ASAPbio for an RFI information session and response workshop where we will share relevant background information and important talking points and provide a supportive environment for silent writing. You will also be able to ask questions about the RFI\, solicit feedback\, and get help submitting your response.
URL:https://asapbio.org/event/asapbios-nih-rfi-information-session-and-response-workshop/
CATEGORIES:Community Call
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20230322T170000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20230322T180000
DTSTAMP:20260128T170311
CREATED:20250324T160453Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250324T160453Z
UID:3810-1679504400-1679508000@asapbio.org
SUMMARY:Spotlight on preprint community projects
DESCRIPTION:The passion and ingenuity of the ASAPbio Community members has been critical in driving awareness and adoption of preprints across the life sciences. \nASAPbio wants to support those in our community who want to spread the word about preprints and to this end\, we started the ASAPbio Community Projects initiative\, a mechanism to cover supplies\, equipment\, or fees for preprint projects driven by community members. \nAt this Community Call\, we provided an overview for this initiative and heard about a couple of projects we have supported: \n\nJonny Coates spoke about the Preprints in Motion podcast\nRicha Arya talked about a workshop on scientific communication & preprints she organized as part of the All India Cell Biology conference
URL:https://asapbio.org/event/spotlight-on-preprint-community-projects/
CATEGORIES:Community Call
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20230322T120000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20230322T130000
DTSTAMP:20260128T170311
CREATED:20250320T000224Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250320T000224Z
UID:1471-1679486400-1679490000@asapbio.org
SUMMARY:March Community Call – Spotlight on preprint community projects
DESCRIPTION:The passion and ingenuity of our community members has been critical in driving awareness and adoption of preprints across the life sciences. At ASAPbio we want to support those in our community who want to spread the word about preprints and to this end\, we started the ASAPbio Community Projects initiative\, a mechanism to cover supplies\, equipment\, or fees for preprint projects driven by community members. Do you have an idea for a preprint project and need some support to put it into action? Then don’t miss our next Community Call\, where we will provide an overview for this initiative and hear about a couple of projects we have supported: \n\nRicha Arya will talk about a workshop on scientific communication & preprints she organized as part of the All India Cell Biology conference\nJonny Coates will speak about the Preprints in Motion podcast\n\nAfter their talks we’ll have Q&A about the program and how you can use it in your community. \n22 March 2023\, 4pm UTC | 4pm London | 5pm Berlin | noon New York | 9am San Francisco | 9:30pm Delhi \nRegister for the Community Call: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZcpcu6qqzksGtQKA3vIgfcJ0TAxAt0k4Svo
URL:https://asapbio.org/event/march-community-call-spotlight-on-preprint-community-projects/
CATEGORIES:Community Call
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20230125T170000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20230125T180000
DTSTAMP:20260128T170311
CREATED:20250324T161348Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250324T161348Z
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SUMMARY:Preprints in Japan and China: perspectives from Jxiv and Sciencepaper Online
DESCRIPTION:The popularity and acceptance of preprints vary among scientific disciplines and geographical regions. Some environments (e.g. research disciplines\, funder and institution policies) are more supportive of researchers preprinting their manuscripts\, while others may discourage it. \nDuring this Community Call\, we engaged in conversation about perceptions of preprints among research communities in East Asia. \nRitsuko Nakajima (Jxiv\, Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST)) and Min Li (Sciencepaper Online\, The Center for Science and Technology Development of the Ministry of Education\, People’s Republic of China) discussed how the environments in their regions\, institutions\, and different scientific disciplines influences the popularity\, acceptance\, and perception of preprints among researchers in East Asia.
URL:https://asapbio.org/event/preprints-in-japan-and-china-perspectives-from-jxiv-and-sciencepaper-online/
CATEGORIES:Community Call
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20230125T090000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20230125T100000
DTSTAMP:20260128T170311
CREATED:20250320T000057Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250320T000057Z
UID:1467-1674637200-1674640800@asapbio.org
SUMMARY:January Community Call – Preprints in Japan and China: perspectives from Jxiv and Sciencepaper Online
DESCRIPTION:The popularity and acceptance of preprints vary among scientific disciplines and geographical regions. Some environments (e.g. research disciplines\, funder and institution policies) are more supportive of researchers preprinting their manuscripts\, while others may discourage it. During this Community Call\, we will engage in conversation about perceptions of preprints among research communities in East Asia. We will discuss how the environments in their regions\, institutions\, and different scientific disciplines influences the popularity\, acceptance\, and perception of preprints among researchers in East Asia with our speakers: \n\nRitsuko Nakajima\, Jxiv\, Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST)\nMin Li\, Sciencepaper Online\, The Center for Science and Technology Development of the Ministry of Education\, People’s Republic of China\n\n25 January 2023\, 9am London | 5pm Beijing | 6pm Tokyo | 10am Berlin \nRegister for the Community Call: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZYuf-itrzgqHdM-lWAh40gSS9bJqX4Vg9E8
URL:https://asapbio.org/event/january-community-call-preprints-in-japan-and-china-perspectives-from-jxiv-and-sciencepaper-online/
CATEGORIES:Community Call
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20221201T080000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20221202T170000
DTSTAMP:20260128T170311
CREATED:20250324T170250Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250401T165324Z
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SUMMARY:Recognizing Preprint Peer Review (2022)
DESCRIPTION: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 Community In and Review Commons. \nSponsored by HHMI\, ASAPbio\, and EMBO\, this meeting aimed to promote community consensus and support for preprint peer review and to create funder\, institutional\, and journal policies that recognize both preprints with reviews\, and reviews of preprints. \nSelected information below archived from the Janelia conference page.
URL:https://asapbio.org/event/recognizing-preprint-peer-review-2022/
CATEGORIES:Meeting
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20220825T170000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20220825T173000
DTSTAMP:20260128T170311
CREATED:20250324T161451Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250324T161451Z
UID:3814-1661446800-1661448600@asapbio.org
SUMMARY:Promoting equity in visibility\, curation and evaluation of preprints
DESCRIPTION:Preprints are freely accessible\, but there are persistent disparities in the visibility and attention paid to preprints according to the authors’ institutions\, geographical area\, language and other backgrounds. \nIn this Community Call\, we discussed how to promote equity in making preprints visible. Bianca Kramer (Sesame Open Science) spoke about how different databases index preprints and whether this may impact how researchers engage with preprints. Maurine Neiman (University of Iowa)\, Preprint Editor for Proceedings B\, shared strategies and risks around scouting preprints\, and steps editors can take to ensure a more equitable approach to identifying preprints of interest. \nYou can read a summary of the Community Call at our blog post.
URL:https://asapbio.org/event/promoting-equity-in-visibility-curation-and-evaluation-of-preprints/
CATEGORIES:Community Call
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20220608T170000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20220608T180000
DTSTAMP:20260128T170311
CREATED:20250324T161619Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250324T161619Z
UID:3817-1654707600-1654711200@asapbio.org
SUMMARY:Preprints in Progress
DESCRIPTION:At our Community call in June\, we explored how we can expand the use of preprints beyond the deposition of papers ready for journal submission. \nPreprints are increasingly used for the dissemination of research\, however\, most preprints still take the form of traditional research papers posted shortly before submission to a journal. \nASAPbio believes that we can accelerate research by substantially expanding the use of preprints to report a wide range of outputs: early-stage results from a small set of experiments\, negative or inconclusive findings \, confirmatory results\, and much more. At the Community Call\, we covered: \n\nASAPbio’s vision and plans for our ‘Preprints in progress’ project that seeks to expand the use of preprints.\nAlexandra Navarro from the Whitehead Institute (MIT\, US) spoke about her experience with the preprint she posted to share early results from her project\, and which she has been shaping over the last year based on community feedback.
URL:https://asapbio.org/event/preprints-in-progress/
CATEGORIES:Community Call
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20220303T170000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20220303T180000
DTSTAMP:20260128T170311
CREATED:20250324T161706Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250324T161706Z
UID:3820-1646326800-1646330400@asapbio.org
SUMMARY:Data sharing with preprints – where do we stand and where next?
DESCRIPTION:At our March Community call \, we discussed data sharing with preprints. \nMany journals now have data sharing policies but in the context of preprints different communities are still developing their own data-sharing practices. At the call we heard the perspectives from a researcher and a data repository about the importance of sharing data with preprints and we discussed with attendees what steps can support data sharing at the time of preprint deposition. \nSpeakers: \n\nJames Fraser\, Professor\, Dept of Bioengineering and Therapeutic Sciences\, University of California San Francisco\nDaniella Lowenberg\, Product Manager for Dryad
URL:https://asapbio.org/event/data-sharing-with-preprints-where-do-we-stand-and-where-next/
CATEGORIES:Community Call
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20211117T170000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20211117T180000
DTSTAMP:20260128T170311
CREATED:20250324T161757Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250324T161757Z
UID:3822-1637168400-1637172000@asapbio.org
SUMMARY:Posting journal-solicited reviews on preprints
DESCRIPTION:Publish Your Reviews is an initiative emerging from the July 2021 #FeedbackASAP meeting that encourages researchers to post journal-commissioned reviews publicly as comments on preprints whenever the reviewed article is available as a preprint. \nIn this ASAPbio Community Call\, we learned about the motivations and specifics of Publish Your Reviews from the speakers below\, and solicited input on how the initiative can address any implications for authors and the confidentiality of journal peer review. \n\nJames Fraser\, ASAPbio Vice President and Professor\, UCSF\nLudo Waltman\, Professor of Quantitative Science Studies and Deputy Director at the Centre for Science and Technology Studies (CWTS) at Leiden University
URL:https://asapbio.org/event/posting-journal-solicited-reviews-on-preprints/
CATEGORIES:Community Call
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20210901T170000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20210901T180000
DTSTAMP:20260128T170311
CREATED:20250324T161844Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250324T161844Z
UID:3824-1630515600-1630519200@asapbio.org
SUMMARY:Understanding geographical disparities in preprint trends
DESCRIPTION:While the use of preprints in the life sciences is increasing\, disparities in adoption remain. \nOne of the main disparities relates to differences in preprint posting across countries\, a large proportion of preprints are posted by authors based in North America and Europe. In our Community Call on September 1\, we heard how the use of preprints is developing in different geographical regions\, and discussed drivers and barriers around preprint use for researchers in different regions with the speakers: \n\nAlex Mendonça\, Online Submission & Preprints Coordinator\, SciELO Brazil\nThabiso Motaung\, Lecturer at the University of Pretoria\, South Africa
URL:https://asapbio.org/event/understanding-geographical-disparities-in-preprint-trends/
CATEGORIES:Community Call
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20210721T150000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20210721T190000
DTSTAMP:20260128T170311
CREATED:20250324T155232Z
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SUMMARY:#FeedbackASAP (2021)
DESCRIPTION:Public feedback on preprints can unlock their full potential to accelerate science.\nPublic 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 COVID-19\, where rapid communication and expert commentary have both been in high demand. Yet\, most feedback on preprints is currently exchanged privately. \nOn July 21\, 2021\, ASAPbio\, in partnership with DORA\, HHMI\, and the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative\, held a meeting to discuss how to create a culture of constructive public review and feedback on preprints.
URL:https://asapbio.org/event/feedbackasap/
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SUMMARY:Bringing culture change to science communication
DESCRIPTION:Preprints are often discussed in the context of broader culture change in science communication. Culture change can be a complex process that requires time and multiple approaches to facilitate a transition into new norms and practices. \nIn our Community Call on May 24\, we hosted a roundtable discussion with three speakers involved in changing scientific culture. We explored the approaches they have taken and what they have learned about what works (and does not) in supporting sustainable and scalable shifts in research practices. \n\nClarissa Carneiro\, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (Brazil) and the Brazilian Reproducibility Initiative\, ReproducibiliTea Brazil.\nBrian Nosek\, Executive Director at Center for Open Science.\nMalvika Sharan\, Community Manager and Research Associate at The Alan Turing Institute (UK) and co-Founder of The Open Life Science program.
URL:https://asapbio.org/event/bringing-culture-change-to-science-communication/
CATEGORIES:Community Call
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20210325T170000
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SUMMARY:‘Why do some researchers have reservations about preprints? Let’s ask them’
DESCRIPTION:While the use of preprints in the life sciences is increasing\, some researchers have concerns about posting their own work to a preprint server or more generally about the use of preprints for research dissemination. \nThis can be due to the lack of peer review for preprints\, the approach to research communication in specific disciplines or other reasons. \nIn our Community Call on March 25\, Iratxe and the ASAPbio Fellow Yamini Ravichandran chaired a conversation with two speakers who shared their reservations about preprints: \n\nHoward Browman\, Principal Research Scientist at the Institute of Marine Research in Bergen (Norway)\, Editor-in-Chief of ICES Journal of Marine Science\, Member of Council\, Committee on Publication Ethics\, Member\, Editorial Policy Committee\, Council of Science Editors\nSeth Leopold\, Professor at the University of Washington School of Medicine (US)\, Editor-in-Chief of Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research
URL:https://asapbio.org/event/why-do-some-researchers-have-reservations-about-preprints-lets-ask-them/
CATEGORIES:Community Call
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20210126T170000
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SUMMARY:ASAPbio strategic direction & plans for 2021
DESCRIPTION:At our January 2021 Community Call\, we will provide an overview of our vision and strategic goals. These will guide our work towards more openness and transparency in life sciences communication. We covered: \n\nASAPbio President Prachee Avasthi shared her vision for the organization and life sciences communication\nASAPbio Executive Director Jessica Polka and Associate Director Iratxe Puebla gave an overview of ASAPbio’s strategic goals and associated initiatives\nGroup discussion and feedback on the goals and projects
URL:https://asapbio.org/event/asapbio-strategic-direction-plans-for-2021/
CATEGORIES:Community Call
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20210114
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SUMMARY:Preprints in the Public Eye (2021)
DESCRIPTION:Read the #PreprintsInThePublicEye meeting summary.\n \nWhile 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. \nThere has been plenty of anxiety about the potential for inadvertent and intentional misreporting of new research related to Covid-19 in the media and how that might be misused or cause harm. The anxiety has been particularly around the role that the explosion of research posted on preprints might be playing in this phenomenon. That said\, the impact of Covid-19 on preprints has also provided a strong impetus to develop novel ways to address the problem. \nASAPbio will be hosting an online event on January 14th that brings together a wide range of expertise to highlight issues around the media reporting of research with a special focus on preprints. There will be presentations of positive and practical steps that can be taken to improve how research is reported in the media to avoid its misinterpretation and misuse. Not least of these initiatives is ASAPbio’s own Preprints in the Public Eye project funded by Open Society Foundations. You can provide feedback on that project here. \nFor the first time\, we will be running a live interactive experiment on Twitter during the event. \n\n\n\n\n\nProvisional program\n\n\n\n4pm GMT/ 11am EST/ 8am PST\nWelcome and introduction.\nJigisha Patel\, ASAPbio.\n\n\n4.10pm GMT/ 11.10am EST/ 8.10am PST\nCOVID-19: Covering Science at Dangerous Speeds.\nIvan Oransky\, Retraction Watch\, Association of Healthcare Journalists\, Arthur Carter Journalism Institute\, New York University.\n\n\n4.20pm GMT/ 11.20 am EST/ 8.20am PST\n“Not peer-reviewed\, but available to try”: Portrayals of COVID-19 preprints in online media stories.\nAlice Fleerackers\, PhD student\, Scholarly Communications Lab\, Simon Fraser University.\n\n\n4.30pm GMT/ 11.30am EST/ 8.30am PST\nLightning talks\n\n\n\nPreprints and the media: friends or foes?\nA perspective from a university press office.\nElisa Nelissen\, KU Leuven.\n\n\n\nOpening the floodgates: Pandemic science communication in a large research hospital.\nRoberto Buccione\, IRCCS Ospedale San Raffaele & Università Vita-Salute San Raffaele.\n\n\n\nA quick look at steps one preprint server (SSRN) has taken to address the problem of misinformation in the media.\nShirley Decker-Lucke\, SSRN.\n\n\n\nPreprint reviews and the media.\nEmily Packer\, eLife.\n\n\n\nRapid Reviews COVID-19: An experiment in peer reviewing preprints.\nNick Lindsay\, MIT Press.\n\n\n\nThe year preprints met mass media: how preprints have impacted reporting and what the rest of us can do to help.\nTom Sheldon\, Science Media Centre.\n\n\n5pm GMT/ 12pm EST/ 9am PST\nBreakout session\nAn experiment in tweeting to a format.\n\n\n6\,15pm GMT/ 1.15pm EST/ 10.15am PST\nCall for final feedback on the Preprints in the Public Eye project.\nConcluding remarks.\nJigisha Patel\, ASAPbio.\n\n\n6.30pm GMT/1.30pm EST/10.30am PST\nEND 
URL:https://asapbio.org/event/public-eye-2021/
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SUMMARY:#PreprintSprint (2020)
DESCRIPTION:November 13 & December 3\, 2020 | Online\nCommunity 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 and comment on preprints\, and reviews can be difficult to find\, both at the level of an individual preprint and across the ecosystem. \nHow do we encourage existing peer reviewers and the broader community to participate in review and curation? How do we promote review of work beyond well-known authors and institutions? How do we convince the community to devote more of their effort towards preprint review? How do we reward evaluation of preprints? \nSuch questions have become even more urgent as the use of preprints grows exponentially amid the COVID-19 crisis. During this critical moment\, we want to encourage thoughtful community engagement with preprints\, including review and curation. \nTo increase exposure for new and existing ideas for encouraging preprint curation and review\, we’re holding an online design sprint in collaboration with Wellcome\, the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative\, Howard Hughes Medical Institute\, DORA\, EMBO Press\, PLOS\, and eLife. \nAt the November 13 kickoff\, participants will collaboratively propose\, critique\, and develop potential interventions. Project leads will then develop their ideas and present to judges on December 3\, who will award recognition to the most promising projects. \nUpdates\n\nThe #PreprintSprint needs you\nKicking off the #PreprintSprint\nRecapping the #PreprintSprint\n\nSubmitted proposals\n\nThe Novel Coronavirus Research Compendium\nEncouraging preprint review: make it easier to create reviews\, make it easier to incorporate reviews.\nTowards principled metrics of scientific influence with automatic curation of preprints.\nEarly Evidence Base: aggregating\, mining and rendering preprint reviews.\nPeeriodicals\nOpen post-publication peer review\nBuilding capacity for preprint peer review and curation in Africa\nCOVID 19 Rapid Review: A joint publishers’ initiative to engage the community on the review of COVID-19 preprints\nI Owe The Academy: Portable Tokens for Open Peer Review\nHarnessing cross-institutional journal clubs to assess and review preprints\nTransforming Peer Review through Mentorship and Community Engagement\nDisplaying evaluation history of preprints\nUnfold Research\nbims: Biomed News\nPutting peers at the heart of peer review\nPiloting peer review overlay services on a distributed network of preprint servers and repositories\nCrowdPeer\nTake a Penny\, Leave a Penny\nPeer review pipeline for preprint servers\nLeveraging Smart Citations as Preprint Commentary and Review\nPreprint review and curation by content type\n\nTimeline\n\n\n\n\nTime\nDetails\n\n\nNovember 2\nNovember 3 (deadline extended)\nProject submission deadline\nFill out this template and submit via email (see details below).\n\n\nNovember 6\nProjects notified of participation in the event\n\n\nNovember 13\, 11am – 1:30pm ET\n(16 – 18:30 UTC)\nKickoff (register)\nWelcome & orientation (5 min)\nProject introductions (55 min): Participants are encouraged to highlight the resources or feedback they’re looking for.\nBreakout discussions (3 x 20 min): Each project will have their own breakout room in which to discuss their project and seek feedback with attendees.\nClosing remarks (5 min)\n\n\nBetween kickoff and presentations\nTeams continue to develop projects and presentations according to feedback at the kickoff.\n\n\nDecember 3\, 11am – 12:35pm ET\n(16 – 17:35 UTC)\nPresentations (register)\nPitches (60 min): Participants will present their projects to judges\, incorporating feedback and collaborations established at the Kickoff\nBreakout discussions (25 min): About community building\, interoperability\, academic incentives\, and more\nAwards (10 min): Judges (and attendees) recognize distinguished projects.\n\n\n\n\n  \nSubmit your project\nASAPbio is calling for proposals for a Design Sprint on Incentivizing Preprint Curation and Review. The event will take place in two phases: a kickoff on November 13 and presentations on December 3. Selected proposals will be publicly posted on asapbio.org. Participants will be notified of invitations to present at the November 13 event by November 6. Selection will be conducted by ASAPbio staff in consultation with event partners. \nScope\nThe proposal\, which can focus on any scholarly discipline\, should aim to develop a new program or introduce an intervention to: \n\nArticulate the value of feedback on preprints to the research community\nEnhance the visibility and usability of preprint reviews\nCreate incentives for reviewing preprints\n\nWe invite submission of proposals to translate projects from one discipline into another. \nHow to submit\nCopy this template and fill out all bracketed fields\, keeping the completed document to 500 words maximum\, minus instructions\, plus figures or tables. Please send completed proposals to Victoria Yan (victoria.yan@asapbio.org) by November 2 November 3 (deadline extended). Participants will be notified of selection to present at the November 13 event by November 6. \nBy submitting\, you agree that: \n\nSelected submissions will be posted on asapbio.org under a CC BY license.\nSomeone from your team is potentially available on November 13 (8am San Francisco / 11am New York / 4pm UK / 5pm Europe) to present an introduction to your project and engage event participants in discussion.\nSomeone from your team is potentially available on December 3 (8am San Francisco / 11am New York / 4pm UK / 5pm Europe) to pitch your project to judges.\nBetween these two events\, you are willing to engage with event attendees to develop your idea and build potential collaborations.
URL:https://asapbio.org/event/sprint/
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SUMMARY:‘Preprint journal clubs – the nuts and bolts’
DESCRIPTION:This Community Call covered preprint journal clubs. Watch our recording on YouTube.
URL:https://asapbio.org/event/preprint-journal-clubs-the-nuts-and-bolts/
CATEGORIES:Community Call
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20200107
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SUMMARY:#bioPreprints2020 (2020)
DESCRIPTION:ASAPbio January 2020 workshop: A Roadmap for Transparent and FAIR Preprints in Biology and Medicine\nJanuary 20-21\, 2020\nEMBL-EBI\, Hinxton\, UK \n(This workshop has now happened: please see the meeting report) \nPreprints offer an opportunity to advance science through accelerating communication and supporting discourse that enables research integrity and reproducibility. \nAt the January 2020 ASAPbio workshop\, co-organised with Jo McEntyre and Maria Levchenko (EMBL-EBI)\, and Oya Rieger (Ithaka S+R)\, we aim to develop an agreed set of ambitious\, but achievable best practices for metadata and processes that would support discoverability\, reuse\, and interoperability of preprints. Implementing these best practices would build trust in preprints and encourage their broader community adoption as first-class research outputs that are ready for use\, evaluation\, and curation by the research and editorial community. We further aim to produce a roadmap for how services may begin to implement these practices. \nThe purpose of this workshop is to: \n\nExchange information about the current and future state of preprint platform operations\nDevelop consensus (or understand divergent visions) on practices and initiatives that could improve discoverability\, reuse\, and community trust in preprints\nDevelop recommendations to address opportunities\, challenges and constraints with respect to implementing these practices and initiatives\nProduce an actionable roadmap for implementing these (ambitious but achievable) recommendations\nContinue to build relationships among the people bringing preprints to biology and welcome newcomers\n\nWhile this workshop will not be livestreamed\, meeting notes will be public and outputs will be published openly. \nFor the purpose of this workshop\, we are using ‘preprints’ to describe life sciences and biomedical research content that is shared openly before peer-review on online platforms\, and typically in the format of complete research manuscripts. \nBackground information from previous ASAPbio meetings \nAgenda and schedule \nLive notes (Google document) \nParticipants\nWe are convening practitioners in preprint services\, publishing operations and infrastructure\, research funders\, and contributors with knowledge of technical standards and/or life science/biomedical research experience. \nConfirmed participants are: \n\nJeff Beck\, NIH National Library of Medicine (USA)\nTheo Bloom\, BMJ and MedRxiv\nRachel Burley\, Research Square\nTom Demeranville\, ORCID\nKevin Dolby\, Medical Research Council (UK)\nJim Entwood\, Cornell University and arXiv\nKathryn Funk\, NIH National Library of Medicine (USA) and PubMed Central\nBrooks Hanson\, American Geophysical Union and ESSOAr\nMelissa Harrison\, eLife\nHannah Hope\, Wellcome Trust\nMichele Ide-Smith\, Europe PMC\nJohn Inglis\, CSHL\, BioRxiv and MedRxiv\nJamie Kirkham\, University of Manchester\nRachael Lammey\, Crossref\nMaria Levchenko\, EMBL-EBI and Europe PMC (co-organiser)\nEmily Marchant\, Cambridge University Press\nMichael Markie\, F1000Research\nJohanna McEntyre\, EMBL-EBI and Europe PMC (co-organiser)\nAlice Meadows\, NISO\nAlex Mendonca\, Public Knowledge Project (PKP) and SciELO Preprints\nMate Palfy\, Company of Biologists\nMichael Parkin\, Europe PMC\nNaomi Penfold\, ASAPbio (lead organiser)\nNici Pfeiffer\, Center for Open Science\nJessica Polka\, ASAPbio (co-organiser)\nIratxe Puebla\, PLOS and representative of COPE\nOya Rieger\, Ithaka S+R and arXiv (co-organiser)\nMartyn Rittman\, Preprints.org\nRichard Sever\, CSHL\, BioRxiv and MedRxiv\nSowmya Swaminathan\, Nature Research\, Springer Nature\nDario Taraborelli\, Chan Zuckerberg Initiative\nEmily White\, Focused Ultrasound Foundation and FoCUS Archive
URL:https://asapbio.org/event/preprints-roadmap-2020/
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20180207
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SUMMARY:Peer Review (2018)
DESCRIPTION:Read a summary of the meeting here\nOver 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 peer review might be advanced. \nTherefore\, ASAPbio\, Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI)\, and Wellcome held a meeting on “Transparency\, Recognition\, and Innovation in Peer Review in the Life Sciences” on February 7-9\, 2018 at HHMI headquarters in Chevy Chase\, Maryland. Due to limited space at the meeting\, in-person participation was by invitation only\, but all members of the community could join us via live stream on February 7 and 8. Videos now are archived on YouTube. \nThis meeting convened thought-leaders from the scientific community\, publishers\, technology developers\, and funding agencies to discuss topics including: \n\nShould journal peer review become a transparent and citable form of scholarly communication?\nShould scientists receive credit for peer review and\, if so\, how might this be achieved?\nWhat are best practices in peer review\, how can they be spread? How can we train scientists in scholarly review?\nIs it possible to overcome inefficiencies and redundancies in peer review?\nShould reviewers be expected to review supporting datasets and code?\nUsing new tools (e.g. preprints and the internet)\, are there new models for feedback/evaluation that could augment traditional peer review?\n\nTo engender broad and open discussion\, the meeting was open (see archives of live video streaming with captioning) with pre-meeting deliberation (e.g. short white papers and commentary) to engage the worldwide scientific community. We look forward to an ongoing conversation that engages diverse stakeholders\, perspectives\, and opinions. \n\nResults of the pre-meeting survey\nResults of voting (morning of February 8th)\nAgenda\nAttendees\nCommentary\nBackground reading: Six essential reads on peer review\nLive Stream Archive\n\nLinks \n\nLive collaborative notes (Google Doc)\nFriday breakout sessions (Google Doc)
URL:https://asapbio.org/event/peer-review-2018/
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