{"id":3488,"date":"2020-02-17T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-02-17T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pl-asapbio.local\/asapbio-newsletter-vol-20\/"},"modified":"2025-03-28T21:37:21","modified_gmt":"2025-03-28T21:37:21","slug":"asapbio-newsletter-vol-20","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/asapbio.org\/asapbio-newsletter-vol-20\/","title":{"rendered":"ASAPbio newsletter vol 20 \u2013 #bioPreprints2020, Review Commons updates, and more meeting reports"},"content":{"rendered":"

Dear subscribers,<\/p>\n

I hope 2020 is treating you well! Since our last update, we\u2019ve been working on a variety of meetings and conference sessions. Here are the highlights.<\/p>\n

#bioPreprints2020: Building trust in preprints<\/h2>\n
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The 32 participants gathered outside Hinxton Hall. Photograph by Jeff Dowling.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

On January 20 and 21, 2020, over 30 representatives from preprint servers, publishers, funders, and organizations working on standards, indexing, and metadata infrastructure gathered at EMBL-EBI to develop ambitious but achievable recommendations for metadata and processes that would improve the discoverability, reuse, and interoperability of preprints in the life and biomedical sciences. Read a summary of the event<\/a>, check out pre-meeting blog posts by COPE<\/a> and NISO<\/a>, view the agenda and attendees<\/a>, see Naomi\u2019s opening presentation<\/a>, and stay tuned as the participants develop outputs from the breakout groups.<\/p>\n

Review Commons update: first Refereed Preprint and community meetings<\/h2>\n
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Review Commons<\/em><\/a> is a new collaboration between EMBO and ASAPbio offering peer review before journal submission. We celebrated the posting of its first Refereed Preprint<\/a> on February 4, and discussed motivations, strategy, and future plans at two community meetings in December. Read the highlights of the discussion and watch the presentations.<\/a><\/p>\n

Preprints I\/O, ASCB, and FORCE11<\/h2>\n

Also in December, we helped CZI organize a workshop about the technologies and innovations that preprints can enable. Read a report from Preprints I\/O.<\/a> Two meeting attendees, Humberto Debat and Richard Abdill, created a tool called Panlingua<\/a> to enable readers to search for preprints in their native languages, which they explain in greater detail in a blog post<\/a>.<\/p>\n

In recent months, we also held an ASCB session reimagining peer review in light of preprints<\/a>, and a panel<\/a> and dinner<\/a> at FORCE11 considering the future of preprints.<\/p>\n

Roundup<\/h2>\n