❓ Do preprints establish priority of discovery❓
Yes!
✨Preprints have a time stamp.
✨Preprints are publicly available.
✨Preprints can be cited.
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Last year, ASAPbio and @creativecommons@mastodon.social launched the Preprint Policy Framework that aligns funder and organizational policies to promote open, reusable, timely, and rigorous research communication.
Next month, we would like to discuss how organizations can join and endorse the framework.
Register and join the discussion! https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/XiwS29N3R7-EMLnxFTpD2g#/registration
More about Preprint Policy Framework 👉️ https://asapbio.org/preprint-policy-framework/
📣 Join @katiecorker@scholar.social (ASAPbio), Chris Wilkinson, and @Neurosarda@mas.to (@prereview@mas.to) on March 5th for the Community Call!
Speakers will discuss the ins and outs of doing open peer review as part of a team🤝
Register 👇️
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✍️ Peer review doesn't have to be journal-led. There are many alternatives. One of them is an independent peer-review platform—Review Commons @ReviewCommons@sciencemastodon.com (launched jointly by ASAPbio and EMBO)!
How does it work?
1️⃣Submit manuscript to Review Commons
2️⃣Single round of peer review
3️⃣The authors address the reviewer's concerns
Outcome?
Publicly posted Refereed Preprint, which you can submit to Creative Commons-affiliated journals to expedite editorial consideration.
https://www.reviewcommons.org/
✍️ Crowd Preprint Review activities are going strong this year! 💪
ASAPbio Meta-Research Crowd has posted its second preprint review this month!
Congratulations to everyone who contributed to this work: Sandra Grinschgl, Maxime Descartes Mbogning Fonkou, Quratul Ayn Zahara, Dr. Mwafaq Ramzi Haji, Randa Salah Gomaa Mahmoud, Nitya Khetarpal, Gliday Yuka, Saeed Shafiei Sabet, and 2 other anonymous authors of ASAPbio Meta-Research Crowd
❌ Myth: Posting a preprint leads to my work being scooped.
✅️ Truth: Preprints establish your priority with a timestamped, citable record, reducing the risk of scooping by proving you were the first to share your findings.
ASAPbio Fellow Inês Geraldes is busting some preprint myths in the video below 👇
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v14RAT_FCQc
Some organizations identify the Preprint Policy Framework as a model framework in adopting openly licensed preprints; others have already signaled their alignment. Don't let your organization stay behind!
Learn more about the framework and the importance of openly licensed preprints in scholarly communication by registering for this month's Community Call!
https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/XiwS29N3R7-EMLnxFTpD2g#/registration
Think preprints are invisible? 👀
They’re not! Discover how preprints are findable, citable, and transforming scholarly communication in the ASAPbio Myth Busting whiteboard video.🎬
🎥 Watch here → https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LzJcELG3WqI
#Preprint #OpenScience #ScholComm #ScientificPublishing
A friendly reminder! Preprints are:
🎇 Free to read
🎇 Free to post
🎇 Accessible worldwide
But the benefits don't end there!
Want to learn how you can benefit from posting a preprint? Visit our website to learn more! 👉 buff.ly/XHCS3Bb
Let's tackle common preprint myths!
❌ “Preprints aren’t peer-reviewed, so they must be of poor quality.”❌
Studies show that most preprints do not differ substantially from the articles subsequently published in journals.
🎬 Watch the video to learn the details👇
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qPlHMZdOOHg
Do you, or your colleagues, have questions about preprints? We are here to help! ASAPbio built a Resource Center to answer all your preprint questions!
Share the resources with your colleagues to increase the preprint awareness!
Visit our Resource Center to learn more👇
https://asapbio.org/focus-areas/preprints/preprint-resource-center/
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Curious to learn more about ‘Publish, Review, Curate’ (PRC)? Read the brief explainer here 👉️ https://asapbio.org/resources/understanding-the-publish-review-curate-prc-model-of-scholarly-communication/
Why should you care about #preprints?
If you upload your manuscript as a preprint, you can:
✅ Claim priority of discovery
✅ Increase citations of your article
✅ Receive feedback and improve your manuscript
✅ Use it as proof of your productivity
❔️ What are the benefits of public peer review?
❔️ How can early-career researchers engage in peer review?
❔️ How to use the PREreview platform for open peer review?
Learn the answers (& more) during the ASAPbio March Community Call!
Register now! 👉️ https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/Cr8qAWH7RvC5xZHMfGuoZg#/registration
Preprints make it possible to share research quickly and openly, but they can also help increase scientific rigor!💪
How? Katie Corker, ASAPbio Executive Director, explains it in our most recent blog post.
In brief, Katie discusses how open preprint peer review can address many shortcomings in the current, strained, journal-dominated system, and how a preprint-centric system can improve scientific rigor and help researchers and the public identify trustworthy research.
https://asapbio.org/more-than-fast-and-open-preprints-for-rigor-too/
📄 What will scientific publishing look like in 2030? 📚️
The scientific publishing landscape is changing rapidly, and recent developments in AI are enforcing further transformations. This evolution will be discussed with the panel of experts, including ASAPbio Executive Director Katie Coker, during the PurePub.AI conference.
Learn more about the event and register to learn more about 'The Journal of the Near Future'!
https://purepub.ai/events/8
Preprints allowed Teena Bajaj to:
🔬 engage with cutting-edge discoveries,
💡 gain new insights, and
💊 connect with ideas that helped with Teena's drug discovery projects.
How did preprints help you?
Community is at the ❤️ of ASAPbio!
We would love it if you joined our Community! There are many ways to get involved, and everyone can find something that suits them.
✨Join the ASAPbio Slack Community! https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfNzwPvNhMokvphD1eVR5wp7WCkNnFUq8GC3VGBTGhtKgTrjA/viewform?pli=1
✨Sign up for the newsletter! https://asapbio.org/newsletter/
✨Join us for the Community Call! https://asapbio.org/outreach/meetings-calls/
✨Follow us on Social Media and share our posts with your community! https://linktr.ee/ASAPbio
Learn more about the ASAPbio Community! https://asapbio.org/community/
Let's build a stronger, more transparent evaluation system for science!🎓💪
PubPeer Foundation is awarding $1,000💰 for selected PubPeer comments that provide significant, original contributions to scientific discussions.
Everyone is welcome to join!
Curious to learn more?
https://pubpeer.com/static/award
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❔Why CC-BY?
✨Choosing CC-BY means that funded research can be freely accessed around the world and reused in a range of settings.
❔Why should funders recommend or require CC-BY?
✨Clear guidance for grantees
✨Setting norms in the community
✨Encourage more open science
Funders and organizations worldwide are uniting around a shared commitment to open science, and you can be part of it!
By using, aligning with, and endorsing the Preprint Policy Framework, your organization can join a growing global movement advancing early research sharing and open preprint practices.
Join Creative Commons and ASAPbio in a discussion about joining and endorsing the framework.
Register 👇️
https://buff.ly/vRvWIl3
Heard the claim that posting a preprint will block journal publication? Not true.
✅ Most journals accept preprints (many even encourage them!)
📊 ~70% of preprints are eventually published in journals
👉 Watch the video to learn more!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uNAX2SQRgkc
We would like to thank the ASAPbio Crowd Preprint Review Leads for their incredible work!
Jay Patel, Fallon Mody, Sandra Grinschgl, Debraj Manna, Emmanuel Odame, and Joseph P. Biggane lead the Crowds that collaboratively review preprints and publicly share the results of their work.
Thank you to the Leads and Crowd members who contribute to this important work! ❤️
Learn more about Crowd Preprint Review here 👉️ https://asapbio.org/focus-areas/peer-review/crowd-preprint-review/
✍️ Advance the Culture of Peer Review with Preprints!🚀
Tips for researchers:
✨ Request reviews and feedback for your next preprint
✨Write preprint reviews
✨Agree to review preprints
✨Convert journal clubs to a preprint review club
✨List preprint reviews on your lab website
The second review from this year's Crowd Preprint Review is out!
https://prereview.org/reviews/19446048
If you would like to join this team, you can still do it! Visit our website and fill out the application! buff.ly/fhTBu5P
Congratulations to all reviewers who contributed to this preprint review:
Joseph Biggane, Emmanuel Odame, Diptarup Mallick, Joseph Biggane, Maria Vidal Ramos, Yohana Amos, Sophie Richard, Reuben Opoku, Randa Salah Gomaa Mahmoud, Priya Dutta, Gliday Yuka
If you missed the discussion on the ins and outs of conducting open peer review as part of a team, you can now read the summary on our blog and watch the recording on YouTube!
Thank you to the speakers:
🌟 @prereview@mas.to team: @Neurosarda@mas.to, Chris Wilkinson
🌟 PREreview Club Leads: Pablo Ranea Robles and Roseline Dzekem Dine
🌟 ASAPbio team: @katiecorker@scholar.social
https://buff.ly/VxrPc7w
We encourage all organizations to join those already committed to promoting the use of preprints and their open licenses in policy and practice by aligning with the Preprint Policy Framework.
Don't know what the Preprint Policy Framework is and how to join?
Register for the upcoming Community Call where the speakers will dive into this topic!
https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/XiwS29N3R7-EMLnxFTpD2g#/registration
Advance the Culture of Peer Review with Preprints!
A few tips for funders, departments & institutions!
✨ Consider preprints and their reviews in evaluations for funding, hiring, promotion, etc.
✨ Allocate funding and support for preprint review services.
This week, @katiecorker@scholar.social (ASAPbio), @Neurosarda@mas.to, Chris Wilkinson (PREreview), Pablo Ranea Robles, and Roseline Dzekem Dine (PREreview Club Leads) will meet to discuss the ins and outs of doing open peer review as part of a team.
Join us for the discussion! https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/Cr8qAWH7RvC5xZHMfGuoZg#/registration
📣Calling on all researchers interested in meta-research (practices, policies & infrastructure on open science and scholarship, e.g., preprints, open access, open education, research impact).
Join ASAPbio Crowd Preprint Review and contribute to collaborative preprint review.
Early Career Researchers are highly encouraged to join!
Learn more 👉
https://asapbio.org/focus-areas/peer-review/crowd-preprint-review/
Boosted by @creativecommons@mastodon.social
Next month, Monica Granados and Taylor Campbell from @creativecommons@mastodon.social will discuss how organizations can join a growing global movement advancing early research sharing and open preprint practices by using, aligning with, and endorsing the Preprint Policy Framework. (https://asapbio.org/preprint-policy-framework/)
Join us for this event! https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/XiwS29N3R7-EMLnxFTpD2g#/registration
✨️ Connect with like-minded peers and colleagues interested in improving scholarly communication!
✨️ Stay updated on trends in life science research & communication
✨️ Learn how to contribute to open science in your own community
Join the ASAPbio Community!
https://asapbio.org/community/
The 2025 ASAPbio Fellows examined how large language models (LLMs) handle, interpret, and communicate information from preprints compared to peer-reviewed journal articles.
The new blog post discussed their findings👇️
https://asapbio.org/interim-findings-from-an-investigation-into-llm-responses-about-preprints-a-2025-asapbio-fellows-project/
Thank you, Felipe Del Valle Batalla, Barakat Mohazab, Akanksha Gupta, Kendra Parson, and Emiliya Taskov, for your hard work on this project!
During the last Community Call, we discussed the Preprint Policy Framework!
Our speakers walked the audience through the Framework's components and its benefits to the scientific community. The presentation was followed by a lively discussion among the attendees and the speakers.
ICYM the Call, you can now view it on YouTube or read the summary on the ASAPbio blog!
Do you want to start your journey as a preprint peer reviewer, but don't know where to begin?
This brief guide will help you get started in 4 simple steps!
Find the full guide here 👉️ https://asapbio.org/resources/asapbio-preprint-peer-review-guide-resources/
You can also join ASAPbio Crowd Preprint Review 👉️ https://asapbio.org/focus-areas/peer-review/crowd-preprint-review/
Did you know that the ASAPbio newsletter features more than just ASAPbio news?
In the newsletter, we also gather:
✨ news from the Open Science community
✨ valuable resources
✨ jobs and opportunities, e.g., grants
& more!
Don't miss the next newsletter!
Sign up now! buff.ly/vvsJyl8
Curious about Open Education?
We encourage you to register for 'Open Education Talks 2026', where ASAPbio Resident, Melissa Chim, will discuss Open Educational Resources and the Future of Open Science.
https://oetalks.opened.ca/
Check out the myth-busting video created by the amazing ASAPbio Resident Xiuqi "Jade" Li!
❌ Myth 4: Posting a preprint online means I don’t need to think about copyright or licensing
✅ Truth: Copyright is automatic, and licensing is an active choice.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oQ0env_uVWY
The licensing choice you make depends on you. To make an informed decision, we encourage you to watch the video!
You can also refer to the ASAPbio licensing FAQ to learn more buff.ly/Tv7w7RM
Knowledge regarding preprint licensing, copyright, and other aspects of research dissemination is important for everyone in the research community, from researchers to funders.
To stay at the forefront of recent developments, we invite all stakeholders to join our upcoming Community Call, where we will hear from the Creative Commons team, learn about the Preprint Policy Framework, and discuss how to get involved in the movement!
https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/XiwS29N3R7-EMLnxFTpD2g#/registration
Open & transparent preprint review means:
✅Faster feedback
✅Crediting reviewers for their contributions
✅Public, constructive discussion
Are you new to preprint peer review and unsure where to begin? Check out the ASAPbio Peer Review Resource Center to learn more!
https://asapbio.org/focus-areas/peer-review/peer-review-resource-center/
The first review from this year's Crowd Preprint Review is out!
Congratulations to all reviewers who contributed: Jay Patel, Quratul Ayn Zahara, Sandra Grinschgl, Diptarup Mallick, Randa Salah Gomaa Mahmoud, Nitya Khetarpal, Xiuqi Li, Dr. Mwafaq Ramzi Haji, Raimi Morufu Olalekan, and Michael Andrades!
https://prereview.org/reviews/19359570
If you would like to join this team, you can still do it! Visit our website and fill out the application! https://asapbio.org/focus-areas/peer-review/crowd-preprint-review/
Take action to support preprints!
If you find preprints beneficial for science, you can support their use in many ways!
🌟Read preprints
🌟Post preprints
🌟Cite preprints
🌟Review preprints
🌟Discuss preprints
🌟Join Communities that support prepint use (such as ASAPbio Community! https://asapbio.org/community/)
⏰️ Happening tomorrow!⏰️
Join @creativecommons@mastodon.social and ASAPbio for a discussion about joining and endorsing the Preprint Policy Framework, which aligns funder and organizational policies to promote open, reusable, timely, and rigorous research communication.
https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/XiwS29N3R7-EMLnxFTpD2g#/registration
Are you curious about open peer review, but don't know where to start?
⏰️ This is your last chance to register for tomorrow's Community Call, where our speakers will introduce this concept, walk you through its ins and outs, and answer your questions during the Q&A.
Join us! https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/Cr8qAWH7RvC5xZHMfGuoZg#/registration
#Preprint fact-checking
🥇 Scoop protection: Allow you to establish priority
📰 Journal compatible: Many journals operate policies
compatible with preprints
💪 Preprints are good quality
🛣️ Smoother path to publication: Many journals allow preprint transfers
from servers
Share this and other ASAPbio Infographics with your friends!
Visit the ASAPbio Preprint Resource Center to find English, Spanish, French, Portuguese, Italian, and Polish infographics!
https://asapbio.org/focus-areas/preprints/preprint-resource-center/
If you are a member of the Health Research Alliance, do not miss next week's discussion, where the experts in the field will explain:
✨️What are preprints?
✨️Who is using them?
✨️How do they accelerate science?
✨️How they are changing the culture of scientific communication & more!