Friends, If you know of some bright young postdoctoral/senior doctoral students whose interests go beyond their own research but includes improving the way science advances collectively, please recommend them to talk to ASAPbio. They could apply for the position of ASAPbio Fellows, a kind of ambassador in their nation/region. There are some Fellows in India already. You might also wish to listen to Prof. Ludo Waltman, Director, CWTS, Leiden, who will be talking about preprints and post peer review. With warm regards, Subbiah Arunachalam ---------- Forwarded message --------- From: ASAPbio Date: Fri, Feb 16, 2024 at 8:47 PM Subject: Let's discuss: A History of Peer Review and Global Preprints Landscape To: Plus apply for the Executive Director position or join as as an ASAPbio Fellow! ASAPbio newsletter February 2024 *Lunch & Learn, Hiring Executive Director, Community Call, Fellows Program, Copenhagen Local Hub & more!* Lunch & Learn: History of Peer Review Join us for our first lunch & learn session, where we will cover a brief history of peer review! These sessions will run every other month and will be short 30-minute calls dedicated to a specific topic of interest to the community. Open to all members of the ASAPbio community. *February 21, 2024, 9am PST / noon EST / 5pm GMT* Sign up! https://asapbio.us19.list-manage.com/track/click?u=fe948d7bf102cf569b61a2cb9&id=55fe478b79&e=de778c5067 *Become a preprint advocate: apply now to be a 2024 ASAPbio Fellow* To support the members of our community who want to deepen their engagement with preprints, we have hosted the ASAPbio Fellows program https://asapbio.us19.list-manage.com/track/click?u=fe948d7bf102cf569b61a2cb9&id=d4e4683f06&e=de778c5067 since 2020. *We are now thrilled to open applications for the fifth cohort of the program. * If you are new to preprints and want to learn more about their use or have you been using preprints for a while and now want to engage others, our Fellows program is for you! This year, there will be two tracks to the program, which will run from April – to August/November 2024. *Culture & Community track* The primary activities of the Fellows program occur as part of the culture and community track. This culminates in Fellows delivering a local talk about preprints. This track runs April-August 2024. *Project work* An additional and optional track in the Fellows program where you work in collaboration with other Fellows to help develop an ASAPbio strategic initiative. This track runs June-November 2024. *Recently, our 2023 Fellow, Ioannis Tsagakis, has written a piece https://asapbio.us19.list-manage.com/track/click?u=fe948d7bf102cf569b61a2cb9&id=5451d2ce73&e=de778c5067about his experience as a Fellow. Read it https://asapbio.us19.list-manage.com/track/click?u=fe948d7bf102cf569b61a2cb9&id=5cd373d26a&e=de778c5067 and learn firsthand what you can expect from the ASAPbio Fellows Program!* The program is now *open for applications until 18 March 2024*. Apply! https://asapbio.us19.list-manage.com/track/click?u=fe948d7bf102cf569b61a2cb9&id=1949f2507c&e=de778c5067 Executive Director of ASAPbio (deadline Feb 19) The ASAPbio team is working to make scholarly communication in the life sciences more open and efficient by catalyzing cultural change in scholarly communication, for instance around the use of preprints and other interim research products, transparent review, and other innovations! *We are hiring the Executive Director* to lead ASAPbio's mission. If you are enthusiastic about preprints and Open Science, check out our job opening! Learn more and apply! https://asapbio.us19.list-manage.com/track/click?u=fe948d7bf102cf569b61a2cb9&id=9351e67ca6&e=de778c5067 Empower your research with preprints - Presentation of ASAPbio Copenhagen Local Hub If you are in Copenhagen on February 20, 2024, join ASAPbio Copenhagen Local Hub for their first event! Sign up for the event! https://asapbio.us19.list-manage.com/track/click?u=fe948d7bf102cf569b61a2cb9&id=beb389fa25&e=de778c5067 *Preprints across the globe; landscapes, perceptions and challenges with Ludo Waltman* At our next Community call, on 19 March 2024, we will discuss the globalization of preprints. The adoption of preprints varies greatly across geographical regions, with many of the efforts to drive adoption originating from the US and Western EU. However, this approach often neglects the opinions and needs of others. In this community call we will hear from Ludo Waltman about the perceptions of preprints across different regions and discuss how to better approach the uptake of preprints with a global mindset. Speakers: Ludo Waltman, Leiden University. *19 March 2024 at noon EST/9am PST/5pm GMT/6pm CET* Sign up for the event! https://asapbio.us19.list-manage.com/track/click?u=fe948d7bf102cf569b61a2cb9&id=98c7e9a8ef&e=de778c5067 Laying the foundation for preprints at EMBL – an interview with Victoria Yan Victoria Yan started her preprint advocate journey as the Project Coordinator for ASAPbio’s ReimagineReview. She is now an Open Science Research Information Specialist at EMBL in Heidelberg, Germany. In the following interview, *we discuss how EMBL is promoting the use of recognition of preprints from an institutional perspective.* Read the blog post! https://asapbio.us19.list-manage.com/track/click?u=fe948d7bf102cf569b61a2cb9&id=41c518b4cd&e=de778c5067 News roundup 'Make Publishing More Efficient And Equitable By Supporting A “Publish, Then Review” Model https://asapbio.us19.list-manage.com/track/click?u=fe948d7bf102cf569b61a2cb9&id=5d070717ab&e=de778c5067' Jessica Polka's article for The Federation of American Scientists regarding the benefits of the preprints and public peer review and recommendations for governing bodies to make publishing more equitable. 'Supporting open science at PLOS Biology https://asapbio.us19.list-manage.com/track/click?u=fe948d7bf102cf569b61a2cb9&id=a80be267e0&e=de778c5067' An article that reflects on open science practices in PLOS Biology journal. 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