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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
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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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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20230125T090000
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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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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20221201T080000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20221202T170000
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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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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20220825T170000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20220825T173000
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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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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20220608T170000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20220608T180000
DTSTAMP:20260128T172746
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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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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20220303T170000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20220303T180000
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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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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20211117T170000
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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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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20210901T170000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20210901T180000
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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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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20210721T150000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20210721T190000
DTSTAMP:20260128T172746
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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/
CATEGORIES:Meeting
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20210524T170000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20210524T180000
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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
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20210325T180000
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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
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20210126T180000
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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
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20210115
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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
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20200108
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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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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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SUMMARY:Evolving Preprint Ecosystem (2017)
DESCRIPTION: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. \nThe 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 or are planned\, with varying degrees of disciplinary overlap (arXiv\, PeerJ Preprints\, preprints.org\, OSF Preprints\, ChemRxiv\, SSRN\, SciELO\, PsyArxiv\, EngArXiv\, SocArXiv\, Authorea\, F1000Research\, etc). Funding agencies are enacting policies supporting preprints\, such as those developed by the Wellcome Trust and the Medical Research Council\, while agencies like the NIH have gone a step further and developed guidelines for selecting a preprint server. Furthermore\, the integration of preprints into the research culture will open doors for the publication of other types of interim research products such as theses\, hypotheses\, protocols\, single-figure publications\, data papers\, software papers\, etc. \nThe goal of this meeting is to identify any gaps/opportunities in the preprint ecosystem\, which in turn will help to inform the revision of ASAPbio’s plans before the close of our RFA suspension. \nRemote participation: Video stream\, collaborative notes\, and Twitter\nWatch live via our YouTube channel\, contribute to the collaborative notes\, and add questions or comments on Twitter with #ASAPbio. \nAgenda\nWednesday\, July 19 – All times EDT \n10:15    Arrivals and coffee\n10:30    Welcome & goals of the meeting – Ron Vale and Jessica Polka (slides)\n10:40    Welcome to the American Academy – John Randell\n10:50    Overview of planned CZI-bioRxiv developments\nJeremy Freeman\, John Inglis\, Richard Sever\nQuestions (5 min)\n11:15    Other planned preprint developments (10 min each\, max)\nPLOS – Louise Page (slides)\nSciELO – Abel Packer (slides)\nbioRN – Gregg Gordon\nCOS – Brian Nosek (slides)\nPreprints.org – Martyn Rittman\nOthers (from the floor)\n12:00    Lunch\n12:30    Open discussion on the preprint ecosystem and infrastructure needs\n              Moderated by Robert Kiley\nJeremy Freeman (verbal remarks)\nPhil Bourne (slides)\n13:30    Existing funder recommendations – Moderated by Ron Vale\nNeil Thakur (slides)\nDiscussion on additional recommendations/standards\n14:30    Approaches to reinforcing standards/best practices\nModerated by Jessica Polka (5 min each)\nAgreement among community of servers – Oya Rieger (slides)\nWhitelist/consumer reports – Carly Strasser\nSearch tool indexing compliant servers – Jo McEntyre (slides)\nEducational module – Jeff Spies (verbal remarks)\nDiscussion\n15:45    Coffee break\n16:00    Services to support preprints\, such as manuscript screening and conversion\nModerated by Ron Vale and Jessica Polka\n16:45    Concluding thoughts from around the room – comments from participants\n17:30    Adjourn \nAttendee list\n\nJordan Anaya*\, prepubmed.org\nAdriana Bankston*\, Future of Research\nJason Barkeloo\, *Open Therapeutics\nIvan Baxter\, *Danforth Center\nPeter Binfield\, *PeerJ\nPhil Bourne*\, UVA\nDaniel Colón-Ramos\, Yale\, ASAPbio\nMegan Deichler\, The Helmsley Charitable Trust\nJeremy Freeman\, CZI\nMatt Garcia*\, CIHR\nMichele Garfinkel*\, EMBO\nPaul Ginsparg*\, arXiv\nGregg Gordon\, SSRN\nJosh Greenberg*\, Sloan Foundation\nCasey Greene*\, University of Pennsylvania\nDarla Henderson\, ChemRxiv\nSam Hindle*\, UCSF\nJohn Inglis\, bioRxiv\nEvelyn Jabri\, E&A Innovation Group\nRobert Kiley\, Wellcome Trust\nDanny Kingsley*\, University of Cambridge\nSam Klein\, Underlay\nEmilie Marcus\, Sneak Peek\nAlfonsoMartinez Arias*\, University of Cambridge\nJo McEntyre\, EBI\nColten Noakes\, Focused Ultrasound Foundation\nBrian Nosek\, COS\nAbel Packer\, SciELO\nLouise Page\, PLOS\nTony Peatfield\, MRC\nAlberto Pepe\, Authorea\nChris Percopo*\, Helmsley Trust\nKate Perry\, Wiley\nJessica Polka\, ASAPbio\nOya Rieger*\, arXiv\nMartyn Rittman*\, MDPI\nSteve Royle*\, University of Warwick\nJohn Sack*\, Highwire\nDaniela Saderi*\, OHSU\nRichard Sever\, bioRxiv\nJeff Spies\, COS\nJohn Spiro\, Simons Foundation\nBodo Stern\, HHMI\nCarly Strasser\, Moore Foundation\nNeil Thakur\, NIH\nTodd Toler\, Wiley\nRon ValeUCSF\, ASAPbio\nDan Valen\, figshare\nEmily White\, Focused Ultrasound Foundation\n\n*by video conference
URL:https://asapbio.org/event/july-2017/
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SUMMARY:Scientific Society Preprint Town Hall (2017)
DESCRIPTION: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). \nScientific 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 sharing to flourish in the digital space as well as the physical. \nThe meeting featured scientist\, funder\, and society perspectives on preprints in the life sciences and details about the development of a next-generation preprint ecosystem. We also hoped to catalyze a discussion on how preprints can benefit scientific societies in the future. \nAgenda (with links to video)\n\n\n\n9:00am\nWelcome and scientists’ perspective – Ron Vale (UCSF)\, Cynthia Wolberger (JHMI)\, Jessica Polka (ASAPbio) (download slides)\n\n\n9:50am\nFunder perspective – Neil Thakur (NIH) (download slides)\n\n\n10:20am\nCoffee and refreshment break\n\n\n10:40am\nRemarks by Patricia Flatley Brennan (NIH/NLM)\n\n\n10:50am\nNext generation preprint service – Phil Bourne (NIH) via video conference (download slides)\n\n\n11:20am\nSocieties innovating with publishing and preprints (panel) – Erika Shugart (ASCB)\, Stefano Bertuzzi (ASM) (view presentation)\, Darla Henderson (ACS)\n\n\n12:00pm\nDiscussion\n\n\n12:45pm\nAdjourn\n\n\n\n  \nAttendees (includes video conference participants)\n\nBlythe Alexander\, Society for Neuroscience\nElizabeth Austin\, American Association of Anatomists\nChristina Bennett\, American Physiological Society\nStefano Bertuzzi\, ASM\nPhil Bourne\, NIH\nPatricia Brennan\, NIH/NLM\nJanine Chiappa\, McKenna American Anthropological Association\nKara Coleman\, The Pew Charitable Trusts\nBenjamin Corb\, ASBMB\nSara Cullinan\, American Society of Human Genetics\nRichard Dodenhoff\, American Society for Pharmacology & Experimental Therapeutics\nSindy Escobar Alvarez\, Doris Duke Charitable Foundation\nJessica Foley\, Focused Ultrasound Foundation\nMaryrose Franko\, Health Research Alliance\nMichele Garfinkel\, EMBO\nCatherine Giffi\, Wiley\nJudy Glaven\, HHMI\nBarbara Goldman\, American Society for Microbiology\nBrooks Hanson\, American Geophysical Union\nDarla Henderson\, ACS\nJennifer Holland\, Histochemical Society\nJessica Homa\, Society for Experimental Biology and Medicine\nBarbara Jasny\, AAAS/Science\nRachael Lallensack\, AAAS/Science\nThomas Lemberger\, EMBO\nDaniel Levin\, International Association for the Study of Pain\nPatti Lockhart\, ASPB\nMarsha Lucas\, Society for Developmental Biology\nDavid Malakoff\, AAAS/Science\nJoseph McInerney\, American Society of Human Genetics\nMarcia McNutt\, NAS\nDavid Nelson\, American Society of Human Genetics\nRebecca Osthus\, American Physiological Society\nJennifer Pesanelli\, FASEB\nMeagan Phelan\, AAAS/Science\nChris Pickett\, Rescuing Biomedical Research\nJessica Polka\, ASAPbio\nClaire Rawlinson\, BMJ\nJohn Sack\, HighWire Press\nDaniel Salsbury\, PNAS\nRita Scheman\, The American Physiological Society\nYvette Seger\, Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology (FASEB)\nNick Shockey\, SPARC\nErika Shugart\, American Society for Cell Biology\nDiane Sullenberger\, PNAS\nNeil Thakur\, NIH\nRon Vale\, UCSF\nKevin Wilson\, ASCB/CLS\nNancy Winchester\, ASPB\nCynthia Wolberger\, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
URL:https://asapbio.org/event/society-town-hall-2017/
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SUMMARY:Technical Workshop (2016)
DESCRIPTION:The report from the workshop has been published (pdf archived 2/1/2017) \nASAPbio (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 services. \nAs a starting premise for this meeting\, we are envisioning the development of a new Central Preprint Service for biology that could aggregate content from multiple existing servers and provide valuable discovery and data mining services for scientists\, intake servers\, and other innovators who might want to develop new services. The output of the meeting\, together with community feedback\, will inform a proposal to a consortium of interested funders\, which may result in a Request for Information (RFI) and a subsequent funding opportunity. \nProposed service\nWe are requesting community feedback on the Central Service model documents listed below: \n\nSummary: Background and a draft model\nAppendix 1: Rationale for a Central Service\nAppendix 2: Current feedback on Central Service features\n\nMeeting information\n\nBackground\nAgenda (with links to documents for live note-taking)\nAttendees\n\nVideo recordings by session\n\nIntroduction to ASAPbio (Ron Vale)\nIntroduction to the Academy (John Randell)\nWhat biologists want from preprints (James Fraser)\nGoals of the Technical Workshop (Jessica Polka)\n\nSlides\n\n\nMeeting participant introductions (roundtable)\nBreakout session 1A\nReport back from breakout sessions 1A\n\nNotes: Architecture\, APIs\, metadata\, and file formats of existing preprint servers/platforms/journals)\n\n\nReport back from breakout session 1B\n\nNotes:  Capabilities of document conversion services (.doc or latex to .xml/.html)\n\n\nBreakout session 2A\nReport back from breakout session 2A\n\nNotes: Tools for automated screening – plagiarism\, image manipulation\, author authentication\n\n\nReport back from breakout session 2B\n\nNotes: Interfaces and approaches for human moderation and curation\n\n\nBreakout session 3A\nReport back from breakout session 3A\n\nNotes: Data storage models (and linking to external datasets)\n\n\nReport back from breakout session 3B\n\nNotes: Identifiers\, versioning\, linking (including to journal publications)\n\n\nBreakout session 4A\nReport back from breakout session 4A\n\nNotes: Search and bibliometrics tools; syndicating content to external search tools\n\n\nReport back from breakout session 4B\n\nNotes: Enabling access by individuals\, journal content management systems\, and others\n\n\nSummary and closing thoughts (roundtable)
URL:https://asapbio.org/event/asapbio-technical-workshop-2016/
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SUMMARY:Funders' Workshop (2016)
DESCRIPTION:Preprints advance global knowledge and serve the public good. They should be collected\, maintained and distributed by an archive that fulfills this mission. \nOn 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 community. \nDocuments sent to attendees in advance of the meeting are posted below; they are open for public comments. \n\nMeeting summary (authored by funding agency representatives)\nAnnouncement and attendees\nAgenda\nPre-meeting Documents\n\n1 – Defining basic objectives of a core preprint service \n2 – A preprint service supported by an international consortium of funders\n3 – Implementation of the preprint service\n4 – What does IT infrastructure for a next generation preprint service look like?\n5 – Existing databases funded by consortiums\n6 – Additional questions for possible consideration\n\n\nPreprint server preferences survey – results as of 2016.05.22\n\nAnonymized responses (xls)\nResults summary (pdf)
URL:https://asapbio.org/event/asapbio-funders-workshop/
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SUMMARY:Preprint Meeting (2016)
DESCRIPTION: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. \n\nSurvey results\nDraft document results\nMeeting Objectives\nProgram\nAttendees\nVideos: talks and discussions (see “ASAPbio 2016”)\nMeeting report
URL:https://asapbio.org/event/2016-meeting/
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