{"id":3695,"date":"2016-06-20T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-06-20T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pl-asapbio.local\/four-foundations-announce-support-for-asapbio\/"},"modified":"2025-03-28T21:38:30","modified_gmt":"2025-03-28T21:38:30","slug":"four-foundations-announce-support-for-asapbio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/asapbio.org\/four-foundations-announce-support-for-asapbio\/","title":{"rendered":"Four foundations announce support for ASAPbio"},"content":{"rendered":"

This announcement was originally posted on the Simons Foundation website<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

On June 20, four foundations announced their support for ASAPbio <\/a>(Accelerating Science and Publication in Biology), a scientist-driven effort with a mission to promote the use of preprints in the life sciences. The combined total provisional funding \u2014 from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, the Laura and John Arnold Foundation and the Simons Foundation \u2014 is $400,000 for work to be conducted over the next 18 months.<\/p>\n

The hope is that use of preprints will catalyze scientific discovery, facilitate career advancement and improve the culture of communication within the biology community.<\/span><\/p>\n

Preprints have been used extensively and successfully in the math and physics communities for over 25 years, through arXiv.org<\/a>. But their adoption has been much slower in the life sciences. \u201cCurrently, many biologists have either never heard of preprints or have incomplete or inaccurate information,\u201d says Ron Vale of the University of California, San Francisco, one of the founders of ASAPbio.<\/p>\n

This funding will enable ASAPbio to hire a director to work with Vale and the other ASAPbio founders \u2014 James Fraser of UCSF, Daniel Col\u00f3n Ramos of Yale University, Jessica Polka of Harvard University and Harold Varmus of Weill Cornell Medical College. The director will engage journal publishers, funding agencies, scientific societies, academic institutions and other stakeholders to discuss the adoption of policies consistent with the mission of ASAPbio. The director will also help the stakeholders develop appropriate and effective material, including the maintenance of the ASAPbio website as a core information hub. \u201cA well-organized \u2018command post\u2019 is needed to disseminate accurate information on preprints and act as a catalyst to get different parts of the scientific enterprise to work together to effect changes in policy and culture,\u201d Vale says.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe increased use of preprints would help to make results, including \u2018negative\u2019 results, available to the research community without the significant delay \u2014 typically many months or longer \u2014 that almost always comes with publishing in a peer-reviewed journal,\u201d says John Spiro, the deputy scientific director of the Simons Foundation Autism Research Initiative. He notes that SFARI encourages investigators to post preprints<\/a> to recognized servers and to list such postings on their biographical sketches.<\/p>\n

ASAPbio began in 2015 with the goal of speeding the dissemination of research results and bringing rigor to biology preprints. The decision to fund emerged after two successful international meetings organized by ASAPbio that brought together scientists, publishers and funders earlier this year. The many constituents at the ASAPbio meetings voiced strong support for a robust preprint mechanism in biology. Summaries of the meetings can be found at ASAPbio.org<\/a> and in an article for the May 20 issue of Science<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n

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