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View article: Discovery Stack Pilot: Feasibility and Outcomes of a Scientist-Designed Peer Review Model Separating Quality and Impact
Discovery Stack Pilot: Feasibility and Outcomes of a Scientist-Designed Peer Review Model Separating Quality and Impact Open
Peer review serves as the cornerstone of scientific quality control. Yet, the current journal-centric system is hindered by long timelines, high publication costs, inconsistent review quality, systemic biases, and editorial gatekeeping. No…
View article: Recommendations for accelerating open preprint peer review to improve the culture of science
Recommendations for accelerating open preprint peer review to improve the culture of science Open
Peer review is an important part of the scientific process, but traditional peer review at journals is coming under increased scrutiny for its inefficiency and lack of transparency. As preprints become more widely used and accepted, they r…
View article: Biomedical publishing: Past historic, present continuous, future conditional
Biomedical publishing: Past historic, present continuous, future conditional Open
Academic journals have been publishing the results of biomedical research for more than 350 years. Reviewing their history reveals that the ways in which journals vet submissions have changed over time, culminating in the relatively recent…
View article: Advancing the culture of peer review with preprints
Advancing the culture of peer review with preprints Open
Preprints enable new forms of peer review that have the potential to be more thorough, inclusive, and collegial. In December 2022, 80 researchers and representatives of funders, institutions, preprint servers, journals, indexers, and revie…
View article: What is the Future of Preprint Peer Review?
What is the Future of Preprint Peer Review? Open
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View article: Crossref metadata for preprints: Discussions and recommendations
Crossref metadata for preprints: Discussions and recommendations Open
In 2016, Crossref launched a metadata schema for ‘posted content’ with the aim of better accommodating the metadata needs for preprints, working papers, theses, reports, and related outputs, which are not typically peer-reviewed. In 2021, …
View article: Preprint metadata recommendations
Preprint metadata recommendations Open
The Crossref Preprint Advisory Group (AG) was formed in June 2021 to discuss metadata issues related to preprints. It has the following aims...
View article: PReF: describing key Preprint Review Features
PReF: describing key Preprint Review Features Open
Preprints catalyze rapid and open communication of research. A frequent criticism of preprints, however, is their lack of peer review. In recent years, myriad new initiatives have enabled review of preprinted research to be coordinated, co…
View article: Submissions and Downloads of Preprints in the First Year of <i>medRxiv</i>
Submissions and Downloads of Preprints in the First Year of <i>medRxiv</i> Open
This study describes submissions, postings, abstract views, downloads, comments, and withdrawals on the medRxiv preprint server from June 2019 to June 2020 and compares submissions and postings before and after COVID-19.
View article: Building trust in preprints: recommendations for servers and other stakeholders
Building trust in preprints: recommendations for servers and other stakeholders Open
On January 20 and 21, 2020, ASAPbio, in collaboration with EMBL-EBI and Ithaka S+R, convened over 30 representatives from academia, preprint servers, publishers, funders, and standards, indexing and metadata infrastructure organisations at…
View article: Rapid sharing of COVID-19 research
Rapid sharing of COVID-19 research Open
Jessica Polka: Welcome everyone to this ASAPBio and KFG webinar on rapid communication of COVID-19 research.We are grateful to be joined by three wonderful panelists today to discuss the various ways in which they and their organizations a…
View article: Reply to Kornfeld and Titus: No distraction from misconduct
Reply to Kornfeld and Titus: No distraction from misconduct Open
1) argue that we (2) deceive ourselves by focusing on signaling adherence to scientific norms rather than on perpetrators of scientific misconduct.This is not the case.We explicitly advocate that funders make research ethics a condition of…
View article: bioRxiv: the preprint server for biology
bioRxiv: the preprint server for biology Open
The traditional publication process delays dissemination of new research, often by months, sometimes by years. Preprint servers decouple dissemination of research papers from their evaluation and certification by journals, allowing researc…
View article: Signaling the trustworthiness of science
Signaling the trustworthiness of science Open
Trust in science increases when scientists and the outlets certifying their work honor science’s norms. Scientists often fail to signal to other scientists and, perhaps more importantly, the public that these norms are being upheld. They c…
View article: Plan U: Universal access to scientific and medical research via funder preprint mandates
Plan U: Universal access to scientific and medical research via funder preprint mandates Open
Preprint servers such as arXiv and bioRxiv represent a highly successful and relatively low cost mechanism for providing free access to research findings. By decoupling the dissemination of manuscripts from the much slower process of evalu…
View article: A Conversation with David Bartel
A Conversation with David Bartel Open
View article: A Conversation with Nicholas Proudfoot
A Conversation with Nicholas Proudfoot Open
View article: A Conversation with Lynne Maquat
A Conversation with Lynne Maquat Open
View article: Career Options for Scientists
Career Options for Scientists Open
Most PhD students in the biological sciences will not go on to become academics. For these individuals, choosing the best career path can be difficult. Fortunately, there are many options that allow them to take advantage of skills they ho…
View article: Technical aspects of preprint services in the life sciences: a workshop report
Technical aspects of preprint services in the life sciences: a workshop report Open
ASAPbio is an initiative that aims to promote the uptake of preprints in the biomedical sciences and in other life science communities. It organized an initial workshop in February of 2016 that brought the different stakeholders together: …
View article: A Conversation with Timothy Mitchison
A Conversation with Timothy Mitchison Open
View article: A Conversation with Steve Henikoff
A Conversation with Steve Henikoff Open
View article: The Human Phenotype Ontology in 2017
The Human Phenotype Ontology in 2017 Open
This FAIRsharing record describes: The Human Phenotype Ontology has been developed to provide a structured and controlled vocabulary for the phenotypic features encountered in human hereditary and other disease. The goal is to provide reso…
View article: A Conversation with Joan Brugge
A Conversation with Joan Brugge Open
The first time you came to Cold Spring Harbor
View article: A Conversation with Benjamin Neel
A Conversation with Benjamin Neel Open
View article: A Conversation with Elaine Mardis
A Conversation with Elaine Mardis Open
View article: A Conversation with Gerard Evan
A Conversation with Gerard Evan Open
View article: Signal Transduction in Cancer
Signal Transduction in Cancer Open
Cancer is driven by genetic and epigenetic alterations that allow cells to overproliferate and escape mechanisms that normally control their survival and migration. Many of these alterations map to signaling pathways that control cell grow…
View article: A Conversation with Susan Lindquist
A Conversation with Susan Lindquist Open
Richard Sever: You work on yeast, but also on Alzheimer's disease and Parkinson's disease and various other conditions.Alzheimer's and Parkinson's are complex neurological conditions that affect multicellular organisms with nerves.Yeast is…
View article: A Conversation with Ron Evans
A Conversation with Ron Evans Open