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SUMMARY:Experiments in publishing with Arcadia\, PubPub & Octopus
DESCRIPTION:In this months community call we are hosting a panel discussion on various experiments within science publishing. Joining us are Gabe Stein from PubPub and Alex Freeman from Octopus. Each presenter will provide an overview of their experiment and advancements in publishing followed by a Q&A session for attendees to learn more and ask their own questions. \nRegister here \nSpeakers: \n\nGabe Stein (Pubpub)\nAlex Freeman (Octopus)
URL:https://asapbio.org/event/experiments-in-publishing-with-arcadia-pubpub-octopus/
CATEGORIES:Community Call
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20250723T170000
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SUMMARY:Replacing Academic Journals
DESCRIPTION:In this months community call\, Bjorn Brembs will discuss the problems with current academic journal system and the potential solutions to replacing this broken system. \nRegister here \nSpeaker: Bjorn Brembs\, University of Regensberg
URL:https://asapbio.org/event/replacing-academic-journals/
CATEGORIES:Community Call
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20250521T170000
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SUMMARY:Tackling industrial scale research fraud: parallels with virus control
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a presentation by Prof. Bishop where she will discuss predatory publishers and paper mills and how we can begin to tackle this industrial scale research fraud. \nRegister here \nSpeaker: Dorothy Bishop
URL:https://asapbio.org/event/tackling-industrial-scale-research-fraud-parallels-with-virus-control/
CATEGORIES:Community Call
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20250423T170000
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SUMMARY:OpenRxiv and a preprint progress update with Richard Sever
DESCRIPTION:In this session\, Richard Sever will give an update on the amazing progress that bioRxiv and medRxiv have made in recent years and will overview and discuss OpenRxiv\, the new non-profit overseeing the two preprint servers. There will be a strong Q&A component so bring along your questions! \nBrief schedule: \n\nAn update on bioRxiv and medRixv and the creation of openRxiv (20-25 min)\nQ&A session (25-30 min)\n\nRegister on Zoom
URL:https://asapbio.org/event/openrxiv-and-a-preprint-progress-update-with-richard-sever/
CATEGORIES:Community Call
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20250326T160000
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CREATED:20250311T183712Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250311T185856Z
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SUMMARY:Institutional recognition of preprints
DESCRIPTION:In this community call\, we focus on institutional recognition of preprints\, a key barrier for wider preprint adoption. We will hear from Michael Dougherty (University of Maryland) who is representing HELIOS (Higher Education Leadership Initiative for Open Scholarship) to discuss the importance of working directly with departments to bring about change. We will also hear from Shubha Tole (Tata Institute of Fundamental Research) whose department recently changed PhD graduation requirements to allow for preprints in place of peer reviewed papers. \nRegister here
URL:https://asapbio.org/event/institutional-recognition-of-preprints/
CATEGORIES:Community Call
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20250130T170000
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LAST-MODIFIED:20250325T170200Z
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SUMMARY:Our new strategic direction from 2025
DESCRIPTION:To kick off 2025\, we at ASAPbio held our January community call on the topic of what’s next for ASAPbio’s strategic direction. \nIf you weren’t able to make it\, you can watch the recording (below). What follows is a brief summary of what you should expect to see soon from us. \n \nRead more in our accompanying blog post.
URL:https://asapbio.org/event/our-new-strategic-direction-from-2025/
CATEGORIES:Community Call
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20241106T170000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20241106T180000
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CREATED:20250311T185600Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250311T185723Z
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SUMMARY:The new Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation OA policy; a Q&A with Ashley Farley
DESCRIPTION:In January 2025 the new Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation open access policy will go into effect. This policy mandates preprints for all grantees\, encourages preprint peer review and removes funding for APC’s. Join us as we host Ashley Farley for a Q&A on the new policy. \nNovember 6th 2024. 5pm UK/Noon EST/9am PST \nRegister here
URL:https://asapbio.org/event/the-new-bill-a-qa-with-ashley-farley/
CATEGORIES:Community Call
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20240911T170000
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CREATED:20250318T231936Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250319T234639Z
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SUMMARY:ASAPbio Community Call: Preprints & the Global South
DESCRIPTION:Preprints and the wider open science landscape has made great strides over the past decade. Preprint adoption has grown to 12% of the biomedical literature and preprint peer review is on the rise. Institutions and funders are increasingly recognising and supporting preprints. However\, this is only the situation in the Global North. In the Global South\, preprints are still heavily underutilised with large issues existing around awareness. Additionally\, the voices and specific concerns and challenges within the Global South are too often not listened to by the Global North. In this community call\, we will hear from researchers based in India and Africa about their experiences with preprints. Following this there will be a Q&A and discussion on how we can provide greater equity to the preprint landscape. \nSpeakers: \nBinay Panda\, Professor\, Jawaharlal Nehru University\, New Delhi \nLamis Elkheir\, Lecturer\, University of Khartoum\, Sudan \nSep 11\, 2024 at noon EST/9am PST/5pm GMT/6pm CET
URL:https://asapbio.org/event/community-call-preprints-the-global-south/
CATEGORIES:Community Call
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20240717T170000
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CREATED:20250318T232214Z
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SUMMARY:July 2024 Community Call – Research integrity\, trust markers & forensic scientometrics with Dr Leslie McIntosh
DESCRIPTION:At our next Community call\, on 17 July 2024\, we will discuss the importance of trust markers and research integrity in addition to the newly proposed field of forensic scientometrics. In recent years\, science has been experiencing a crisis in trust\, with record numbers of retractions\, news reports of fraudulent studies\, lawsuits against scientists correcting the literature and a deep politicalization of research. With the increasing use of Ai\, these issues are likely to worsen. Increasingly\, scientists and other stakeholders are looking at markers of trust and improved research integrity. It appears that this will be a key feature of research articles and researcher assessment in the future. In this community call we will hear about some of these efforts in addition to the importance of recognising efforts around correcting the literature; forensic scientometrics.  \nSpeakers: \n\nLeslie McIntosh; Vice President of Research Integrity\, Digital Science\n\nDate: 17 July 2024 at noon EST/9am PST/5pm GMT/6pm CET
URL:https://asapbio.org/event/research-integrity-trust-markers-and-foresic-scientometrics/
CATEGORIES:Community Call
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20240522T170000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20240522T180000
DTSTAMP:20260128T162912
CREATED:20250318T232505Z
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SUMMARY:May 2024 Community Call – AI in preprints and publishing with Josh Nicholson
DESCRIPTION:At our next Community call\, on 22 May 2024\, we will discuss the use of AI in publishing and preprints. The rise of AI represents a global challenge for all aspects of life. In academia\, AI promises to revolutionize scientific publishing and yet presents major problems for publishers and researchers. On the one hand\, preprint servers\, such as bioRxiv\, have recently begun trialing the use of AI generated preprint summaries. On the other hand\, preprint servers (& publishers) are struggling with the use of chatGPT in research articles. In this community call we will hear about scite.ai\, a platform that is bringing many of the positive aspects of AI to academia and publishing. Additionally\, we will discuss the beneficial and negative uses of AI. \nSpeakers: \n\nJosh Nicholson; CEO\, Scite.ai
URL:https://asapbio.org/event/the-use-of-ai-in-publishing-and-preprints/
CATEGORIES:Community Call
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20240319T170000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20240319T180000
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SUMMARY:Preprints across the globe; landscapes\, perceptions and challenges with Ludo Waltman
DESCRIPTION:At our next Community call\, on 19 March 2024\, we will discuss the globalization of preprints. \nThe adoption of preprints varies greatly across geographical regions\, with many of the efforts to drive adoption originating from the US and Western EU. However\, this approach often neglects the opinions and needs of others. In this community call we will hear from Ludo Waltman about the perceptions of preprints across different regions and discuss how to better approach the uptake of preprints with a global mindset. \nSpeakers: \n\nLudo Waltman\, Deputy director at the Centre for Science and Technology Studies (CWTS) at Leiden University.\n\nRegister
URL:https://asapbio.org/event/preprints-across-the-globe-landscapes-perceptions-and-challenges-with-ludo-waltman/
CATEGORIES:Community Call
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20240319T170000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20240319T180000
DTSTAMP:20260128T162912
CREATED:20250318T232649Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250319T234812Z
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SUMMARY:Preprints across the globe; landscapes\, perceptions and challenges with Ludo Waltman
DESCRIPTION:At our next Community call\, on 19 March 2024\, we will discuss the globalization of preprints. The adoption of preprints varies greatly across geographical regions\, with many of the efforts to drive adoption originating from the US and Western EU. However\, this approach often neglects the opinions and needs of others. In this community call we will hear from Ludo Waltman about the perceptions of preprints across different regions and discuss how to better approach the uptake of preprints with a global mindset. \nSpeakers:\nLudo Waltman\, Leiden University.
URL:https://asapbio.org/event/preprints-across-the-globe-landscapes-perceptions-and-challenges/
CATEGORIES:Community Call
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20240124T170000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20240124T180000
DTSTAMP:20260128T162912
CREATED:20250318T232826Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250319T235039Z
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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:20260128T162912
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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:20260128T162912
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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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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20231027T160000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20231027T173000
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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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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20231017T080000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20231018T170000
DTSTAMP:20260128T162912
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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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20230918T170000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20230918T180000
DTSTAMP:20260128T162912
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:20260128T162912
CREATED:20250319T233917Z
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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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20230726T170000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20230726T180000
DTSTAMP:20260128T162912
CREATED:20250324T160204Z
LAST-MODIFIED: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:20260128T162912
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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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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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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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20230322T170000
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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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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
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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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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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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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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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