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Very much enjoyed last week's meeting in Cambridge about the Publish-Review-Curate (PRC) model for scholarly publishing. There were lots of highly inspiring discussions, including an important discussion about strengthening coordination between initiatives in this area. asapbio.org/reimagining-...

Summary of recent meeting to discuss the Publish, Review, Curate (PRC) publishing model. To build on this momentum @coar-repositories.bsky.social & @asapbio.bsky.social will convene a working group to explore establishing a PRC Alliance coar-repositories.org/news-updates... #scientificpublishing

Seun Olufemi, a public health and biomedical researcher and an active advocate for open science, shares his experience with using preprints within his research workflow during the interview with 2025 ASAPbio Fellow FatimaElzhra Ali. buff.ly/oYH56ql

The fourth interview discussing preprints in the Global South features Dr. Olavo Amaral, a leading neuroscience researcher and an active advocate for preprints in Brazil (interviewed by the 2025 ASAPbio Fellow Tolulope Ogunniyi). buff.ly/eBLcuYy

Why Publish-Review-Curate (PRC) should be the future of scholarly publishing! During a recent meeting, Ludo Waltman @ludowaltman.bsky.social, President of ASAPbio, argued in favor of this model and its adoption in scholarly publishing. buff.ly/pIjAYq5 @coar-repositories.bsky.social

The third interview discussing preprints in the Global South features Alex Mendonça (interviewed by the 2025 ASAPio Fellow Tolulope Ogunniyi), who discusses the important work of @scielo.org Preprints in improving preprint submission and sharing across Latin America—particularly in Brazil.

🌍 Researchers in the Global South face unique challenges when they engage in #OpenScience and #preprints. ASAPbio Fellows discussed some of those with a diverse group of Open Science enthusiasts from the Global South.

The second interview in our series "Preprints and the Global South" features Prof. To Thi Mai Huong from the University of Science and Technology of Hanoi, interviewed by the 2025 ASAPbio Fellow Jimeng Li, a PhD student from Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières.

Our 2025 ASAPbio Fellow, Fotis Mystakopoulos @elibrarydude.bsky.social, will be moderating an online international discussion, co-hosted between Global Young Academy and ALMASI Project, @almasiproject.bsky.social, on the current state of Diamond publishing. 🔗 Register here: buff.ly/JQQpbhd

On 14 November, leaders from across the global research ecosystem gathered for a workshop co-organized by ASAPbio, @cwtsnl.bsky.social, @dorassessment.bsky.social, and the @sciencecouncil.bsky.social, to advance aligned strategies for reforming publishing and research assessment.

Second ASAPbio fellows project for 2025 - this one around data sharing policies at preprint servers and repositories.

Together with colleagues from @dorassessment.bsky.social, @cwtsnl.bsky.social, and @sciencecouncil.bsky.social, @asapbio.bsky.social hosted a workshop to identify and advance joint actions to strengthen the research assessment and publishing reform movements. Learn more: asapbio.org/internationa...

Do you want to be up-to-date with: ✨ ASAPbio events and initiatives ✨ News from the broad # OpenScience and preprint community ✨ Jobs and opportunities in #OpenScience? Sign up for the ASAPbio newsletter! buff.ly/EhplTHD

What policies do data repositories have around hosting data that has not yet been published in a traditional academic journal? What policies do preprint servers have regarding data inclusion? ASAPbio Fellows Madeline Morrisson and Rachel Mtama dove into those questions. buff.ly/xnD83K4

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! buff.ly/DTwhRP7

How are preprints perceived and evaluated in the life sciences from a PI's perspective? Check our my podcast episode through the @asapbio.bsky.social Fellow's program, where I interviewed @leonardomorsut.bsky.social about his perspective on the topic! My key takeaways: 1/6

Preprints offer a pathway on a more equitable scholarly communication landscape. While this is the interview I was part of, please follow @asapbio.bsky.social as they have shared more interviews from other 2025 fellows that were part of the recognitions project. More reflective post too follow!

Thrilled to see the work of 2025 @asapbio.bsky.social Fellows come to completion! First up, a set of interviews on recognition of preprints: ✨A Funder’s Perspective: youtu.be/CWthlNss7n4 ✨A PI’s Perspective: youtu.be/ZSqkwdFYCxQ ✨An ECR Perspective: youtu.be/6Te9dA_nv1k

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.

ASAPbio Fellow Fotis Mystakopoulos @elibrarydude.bsky.social spoke with Ashley Farley @openaccessmaven.bsky.social, Senior Officer of Knowledge and Research Services at the Gates Foundation, about how a major funder is accelerating open science through preprints. buff.ly/KR2lbjg

In this episode of the ASAPbio Fellows Recognition of Preprints Podcast series, we speak with Jakke Neiro @jakkeneiro.bsky.social, an early-career researcher embarking on a postdoc at Karolinska Institutet in Sweden. buff.ly/32uKLUM

ASAPbio Fellow Benjamin Swedlund @benswedlund.bsky.social interviewed USC Assistant Professor Leonardo Morsut @leonardomorsut.bsky.social about the recognition of preprints in the life sciences. 🔬 🧪 buff.ly/TeWEkBi

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👇 buff.ly/62Bi5hk

1/ @reviewcommons.org, @embo.org's preprint peer review platform, is taking an important step forward. Multiple publishers, including eLife, are now jointly running the peer-review process on behalf of the platform. 🔗 buff.ly/Rm1XotK

Big New! @elife.bsky.social @genetics-gsa.bsky.social #G3journal are joining editorial forces with @reviewcommons.org - bringing not just field-specific expertise to the process but also making #PreprintPeerReview a truly collaborative effort!🎉👏 Read more to find out👇 www.embo.org/features/pub...

Additionally, applications are now open to join the 2026 Cohort of PREreview Champions. Learn more about what to expect and apply today: content.prereview.org/2026-prerevi... Please consider sharing this opportunity with others in your community! Thank you!

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✍️ 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

📣 Join the ReproducibiliTea Steering Committee! 📅 Applications are open until 30th November 2025 (midnight CET). Full Announcement: docs.google.com/document/d/1... Application Form: forms.gle/R8FSHGJCFVk2... Please share!

Some great tips from @elife.bsky.social 👇

We’re excited to share that NORRN is launching its first-ever Open Science Award to recognise outstanding early career researchers in Norway who champion open science 🏆 Award winners will receive a gift card + certificate, see the application form for more details nettskjema.no/a/531568#/pa...

Anotehr blog post from me re: open research. This time on pre-prints: echr.group/2025/10/31/w... Not mentioned in that blog, but the folks @asapbio.bsky.social have a great resource on pre-printing here: asapbio.org/about/why-pr...

Sciety is bridging preprints and open social networks. Our latest integration with #Bonfire enables you to start a discussion on Sciety and federate anywhere; meeting researchers wherever they already are. blog.sciety.org/bridging-pre... #Fediverse #ActivityPub #NLnet

Enabling options for review: bioRxiv authors now have the option to send their preprints directly to @qedscience.bsky.social , an authors-centered AI review platform, for automated feedback on their paper. openrxiv.org/enabling-rev... #OpenScience #Preprints #openrxiv #qedscience #biorxiv

Finding it confusing licensing your work? @asapbio.bsky.social have created an FAQ covering the basics and commercial uses, supporting you to make an informed choice. #OpenAccess #OpenScience #PhDsky

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

❔How can funders maximize the value of their grants? ✨Recommend – or better yet require – grantees to publish the outputs of their research using Creative Commons attribution, or CC-BY, licenses. Our blog post shares recommendations and examples of good practices👇

❓ Do preprints establish priority of discovery❓ Yes! ✨Preprints have a time stamp. ✨Preprints are publicly available. ✨Preprints can be cited. #OpenScience #research #science #OpeAccess

💡 Thinking about preprinting but unsure where to start? 📖 Check out “A Guide to Preprinting for Early Career Researchers”: 🔍 What preprints are & their relevance across disciplines 💬 Tips for discussing preprints with co-authors ✅ Preprint submission checklist

Elevate Preprint Feedback with FAST Principles! ✨Focused: Tackle the science, not the person. ✅Appropriate: Keep it respectful and bias-free. 🎯Specific: Provide actionable insights. 🌐Transparent: Be open about your role.

An example of how preprints allow researchers to have an official time stamp of making their research publicly available, and establish priority of the discovery.

It’s terrific to see such support for preprints from funders!

Preprints and open peer review are one of the potential new avenues for research dissemination and evaluation that are independent of journal publications.

Launching the new Participation Reports, already available at crossref.org/members/prep. Read about what's new and why more transparency on #openmetadata is important for movements like @barcelonadori.bsky.social, not to mention insights for members themselves doi.org/10.64000/8d5... #Crossref2025

Register for Don't Use This Code's free Open Science Skills virtual training! Learn to: - Use tools like GitHub, Python & Zenodo - Make research accessible, transparent & reproducible - Understand concepts like FAIR & CARE - Draft Open Science & Data Management plans 🔗: www.opensciencetraining.org

Of particular interest to those interested in #preprints and #openscience , or anyone who has been thinking about the Engagement with Society aspects of OS cc. @asapbio.bsky.social @ludowaltman.bsky.social @stephenpinfield.bsky.social @jacoates.bsky.social

If you don't know yet who the Barcelona Declaration on Open Research Information is, take 3 minutes to learn about this organization and the vital work they do in the Open Science space.

Did you know literature databases index preprints? In Europe PMC you can discover preprints from 34 different preprint servers alongside peer reviewed research! Since 2018, Europe PMC has made 1 million preprints searchable. #OpenAccess #OpenScience #Preprint

Happy #OAweek all! Check out our latest myth busting short from our awesome resident Jade!