From: ASAPbio <jessica.polka@asapbio.org> Date: Thu, 13 Jul 2023, 18:33 Subject: July Community Call, Crowd Preprint Review and ASAPbio survey. Learn about the recognition of preprints in research assessment during our Community Call. ASAPbio newsletter July 2023 *Community Call, Crowd Preprint Review & more* July 2023 Community Call: Driving recognition of preprints in research assessment The recognition of preprints by publishers has been a significant step in preprints becoming common in the life sciences. In more recent years, funding bodies and hiring committees have implemented policies recognizing preprints as valid research outputs and as evidence in grant or job applications. Our speakers will discuss how funders are recognizing preprints in research and researcher assessment and why this is such an important step for equity and diversity efforts. Speakers: - Hannah Hope, Open research lead, Wellcome Trust - Needhi Bhalla, Professor, University of California Santa Cruz Join us on *Wednesday, 26 July, 9am San Francisco / 12pm New York / 4pm UTC / 5pm London / 6pm Berlin / 9:30pm Mumbai* Register for the Community Call <https://asapbio.us19.list-manage.com/track/click?u=fe948d7bf102cf569b61a2cb9&id=7b9b065700&e=de778c5067> Survey on preprints and graduation requirements ASAPbio is gathering information regarding preprints and graduation requirements. If you have 5 minutes, please help us by completing the survey and sharing it with your colleagues. The intended audience for this survey is researchers and administrators at research institutions without geographic restrictions. This survey is anonymous unless you elect to provide your contact information. If you would like to learn more about the survey, please read the blog post <https://asapbio.us19.list-manage.com/track/click?u=fe948d7bf102cf569b61a2cb9&id=41c39acd37&e=de778c5067> . The survey is available in English <https://asapbio.us19.list-manage.com/track/click?u=fe948d7bf102cf569b61a2cb9&id=52661af10f&e=de778c5067>, Spanish <https://asapbio.us19.list-manage.com/track/click?u=fe948d7bf102cf569b61a2cb9&id=2560cd1812&e=de778c5067>, Portuguese <https://asapbio.us19.list-manage.com/track/click?u=fe948d7bf102cf569b61a2cb9&id=3ee7325400&e=de778c5067>, French <https://asapbio.us19.list-manage.com/track/click?u=fe948d7bf102cf569b61a2cb9&id=abc7944d55&e=de778c5067>, and Polish. Take the survey! <https://asapbio.us19.list-manage.com/track/click?u=fe948d7bf102cf569b61a2cb9&id=188c30d621&e=de778c5067> Crowd preprint review is back! Sign up to participate in one of the 5 groups led by ASAPbio Fellows. Interested in honing your peer review skills while providing feedback to preprint authors? Then join one of our preprint review crowds! We are accepting applications on a rolling basis. This year our crowd preprint review activities will include five groups that will provide feedback on preprints in the following areas: - Molecular and cellular neurobiology: focus on neurodevelopment and neurodegeneration - Cancer biology: Biochemical, molecular and cellular studies in relation to cancer - Computational neuroscience: Computational, theoretical and data-driven approaches in understanding brain function - Meta-research: Practices, policies & infrastructure on open science and scholarship e.g. preprints, open access, open education, research impact - *New*! Metabolism: Regulation of metabolic homeostasis and pathophysiology of metabolic diseases, from cell biology to integrative physiology *Send your preprint to receive feedback. * Have you posted a preprint in one of the above categories and would like to receive feedback? We are calling on preprints authors to submit their preprints to be reviewed by researchers as a part of the Crowd Preprint Review! If you are interested, please email jonny.coates@asapbio.org Learn more and sign up! <https://asapbio.us19.list-manage.com/track/click?u=fe948d7bf102cf569b61a2cb9&id=1a227d594f&e=de778c5067> Meet the 2023 ASAPbio Fellows *The ASAPbio Fellows program provides participants with tools and skills to drive discussions about the productive use of preprints, and to become ASAPbio representatives for their communities. Each month, we'll feature a few of the 2023 Fellows so you can get to know them. * *Chenyue Jiao* I am a PhD student in School of Information Sciences at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. My research interest lies in scholarly communication where I study research data sharing and reuse. I am excited to be a 2023 ASAPbio Fellow because of the connections and collaborations with distinguished scholars and potential contributions to preprints in life sciences. *Garima Jain* Currently, I am serving as Principal Investigator at Banaras Hindu University in Varanasi, India. This project involves identifying and profiling urine miRNAs to develop an early diagnosis of prostate cancer. I believe that preprints have the potential to revolutionize the way research is disseminated and accelerate scientific progress. My larger objective is to advocate for the recognition of preprints as equivalent to published work by government bodies, which would help remove barriers to the wider adoption of preprints in the research community. *Sheiliza Carmali* I am currently a lecturer in Protein Therapeutics at the School of Pharmacy, Queen’s University Belfast (UK). My research interests are in the use of synthetic approaches to modulate protein activity and address current unmet needs in human health. I joined the ASAPbio Fellows program because I am interested in the implementation of open science to drive more transparency and facilitate dissemination into wider scientific community. *Yueh Cho* I am a senior postdoc fellow at the Institute of Plant and Microbial Biology, Academia Sinica, Taiwan, majoring in plant biology with expertise in protein homeostasis. I believe that transparency and efficiency of communication in the scientific community are as important as the integrity and process of research in your own group. Open science will become the future standard for us to share knowledge with others, and the ASAPbio Fellows program provides an opportunity to be involved in the acceleration of science. News roundup 'Ben Barres Spotlight Awards: Applications open for 2023 <https://asapbio.us19.list-manage.com/track/click?u=fe948d7bf102cf569b61a2cb9&id=f40aa51129&e=de778c5067>' $5,000 award for researchers from underrepresented backgrounds or from countries with limited funding. "The awards are open to eligible authors of publicly reviewed preprints, as well as authors who have published peer-reviewed articles or Reviewed Preprints with eLife." 'Reading and Scientific Evaluation of Articles and Pre-Prints <https://asapbio.us19.list-manage.com/track/click?u=fe948d7bf102cf569b61a2cb9&id=ef27bb0bad&e=de778c5067>', a University of São Paulo course. 'ALPSP Impact and Innovation Awards 2023: Shortlists announced <https://asapbio.us19.list-manage.com/track/click?u=fe948d7bf102cf569b61a2cb9&id=5d65537700&e=de778c5067>' eLife's new publishing model of peer-reviewed preprints has been shortlisted for the Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishers (ALPSP) Impact Award. 'New related articles feature <https://asapbio.us19.list-manage.com/track/click?u=fe948d7bf102cf569b61a2cb9&id=8e61d47ff4&e=de778c5067>' on Sciety "shows you relevant preprints to the one you’ve just read" 'Facilitated Preprint Posting is now available for Lab Protocols at PLOS ONE <https://asapbio.us19.list-manage.com/track/click?u=fe948d7bf102cf569b61a2cb9&id=0b186f3cc3&e=de778c5067>' Announcement from PLOS ONE about expanding the partnership with the preprint server bioRxiv to include Lab Protocols. 'Some remarks on peer review and preprints <https://asapbio.us19.list-manage.com/track/click?u=fe948d7bf102cf569b61a2cb9&id=86443e3f8a&e=de778c5067>' Editorial from SciELO outlining the brief history of peer review, it's shortcomings, why and how we can improve it. A sign-up form <https://asapbio.us19.list-manage.com/track/click?u=fe948d7bf102cf569b61a2cb9&id=22a41a4040&e=de778c5067>for anyone interested in starting and maintaining a community-based, post-publication peer review and recommendation system through a new Peer Community In in topics that relate to plant sciences / photosynthetic organisms / phototrophs biology, including marine photosynthetic organisms. 'Communicating Science: Analysis of the Push for Open Access <https://asapbio.us19.list-manage.com/track/click?u=fe948d7bf102cf569b61a2cb9&id=355600c33c&e=de778c5067>' A blog post from the International Science Council about the history and recent developments in the Open Science movement. 'The Rise Of Preprints In The Biomedical Sciences: Implications For Research Publishers <https://asapbio.us19.list-manage.com/track/click?u=fe948d7bf102cf569b61a2cb9&id=16ba6bcc88&e=de778c5067>' A blog post from Impact Science about the growing interest in preprints in biomedical sciences and how it impacts journals and publishers. 'Preprints as a medium for public debate on the COVID-19 pandemic: Observations on the blurring of internal and external scientific communication <https://asapbio.us19.list-manage.com/track/click?u=fe948d7bf102cf569b61a2cb9&id=46546f575d&e=de778c5067>' Preprint evaluating commenting on preprints by specialists and non-specialists on preprint servers and Twitter. 'Preprints become papers less often when the authors are from lower-income countries <https://asapbio.us19.list-manage.com/track/click?u=fe948d7bf102cf569b61a2cb9&id=c61db3310b&e=de778c5067>' An article from Nature about the inequities between lower- and higher-income countries regarding the ratio of preprints followed by a journal publication. Events *ASAPbio will participate in* James Fraser, Jessica Polka, and Madeleine Rostad will host a series of 20’ preprint Q&A sessions at the ASAPbio booth during the Protein Society Annual Symposium <https://asapbio.us19.list-manage.com/track/click?u=fe948d7bf102cf569b61a2cb9&id=5589832a8e&e=de778c5067> . Each session will begin with a brief introduction to a recent preprint posted by the conference presenter, followed by a Q&A. *July 13-July 16, 2023* *Other events* HighWire Press’s Best Practice webinar <https://asapbio.us19.list-manage.com/track/click?u=fe948d7bf102cf569b61a2cb9&id=3d2468bfd9&e=de778c5067>series will explore innovations in preprint peer review and supporting technology DocMaps, and MECA. Webinar panelists will include representatives from the preprint servers (bioRxiv and medRxiv) and the peer review services (Review Commons and Peer Community In). *July 17, 10am – noon ET * DocMaps Launch Community Event <https://asapbio.us19.list-manage.com/track/click?u=fe948d7bf102cf569b61a2cb9&id=d15d5a54bc&e=de778c5067> You will learn about DocMaps (overview of DocMaps, project aims, etc.) and see a demo of the DocMaps toolkit's key components using biology preprints. Speakers include representatives from Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press, eLife, EMBO, and Europe PMC. *July 19th, 2023 at 11 am EDT* [image: LinkedIn] <https://asapbio.us19.list-manage.com/track/click?u=fe948d7bf102cf569b61a2cb9&id=8c2b2aefb7&e=de778c5067> [image: Twitter] <https://asapbio.us19.list-manage.com/track/click?u=fe948d7bf102cf569b61a2cb9&id=bf0e6518f1&e=de778c5067> [image: Website] <https://asapbio.us19.list-manage.com/track/click?u=fe948d7bf102cf569b61a2cb9&id=65e61b6786&e=de778c5067> [image: YouTube] <https://asapbio.us19.list-manage.com/track/click?u=fe948d7bf102cf569b61a2cb9&id=c6e8e0badd&e=de778c5067> *Copyright © 2023 ASAPbio. Except where noted, content is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license <https://asapbio.us19.list-manage.com/track/click?u=fe948d7bf102cf569b61a2cb9&id=894e5e7872&e=de778c5067>.* You are receiving this email because you opted in via our website. *Our mailing address is:* ASAPbio 3739 Balboa St # 1038 San Francisco, California 94121 Add us to your address book <https://asapbio.us19.list-manage.com/vcard?u=fe948d7bf102cf569b61a2cb9&id=57db9a11e5> Want to change how you receive these emails? You can update your preferences <https://asapbio.us19.list-manage.com/profile?u=fe948d7bf102cf569b61a2cb9&id=57db9a11e5&e=de778c5067&c=0da88639a3> or unsubscribe from this list <https://asapbio.us19.list-manage.com/unsubscribe?u=fe948d7bf102cf569b61a2cb9&id=57db9a11e5&e=de778c5067&c=0da88639a3> .