Learn more about the Preprint Policy Network here 👉️ buff.ly/yRaWyD4

Next month, @monsauce.bsky.social and Taylor Campbell from @creativecommons.bsky.social will discuss how organizations can join a movement advancing early research sharing and open preprint practices by using, aligning with, and endorsing the Preprint Policy Framework.

Register 👉️ buff.ly/vRvWIl3

✍️ 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

Preprint Resource Center – ASAPbio Access comprehensive guides, tools, and best practices for publishing and engaging with preprints in the life sciences.

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!
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#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

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.

Welcome! You are invited to join a meeting: Research Funders and Organizations Aligning for Open Research: The Preprint Policy Framework. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the meeting. 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 Funders Policy Framework,…

Register to learn more about the Preprint Policy Framework and join the discussion! buff.ly/vRvWIl3

More about Preprint Policy Framework 👉️ buff.ly/yRaWyD4

Last year, ASAPbio and @creativecommons.bsky.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.

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! buff.ly/IJHCatn)

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 👉️ buff.ly/u46TAPm

You can also join ASAPbio Crowd Preprint Review 👉️ buff.ly/fhTBu5P

Congratulations to all reviewers who contributed to this preprint review: Jay Patel, Quratul Ayn Zahara, @grinschglsandra.bsky.social, Diptarup Mallick, Randa Salah Gomaa Mahmoud, Nitya Khetarpal, Xiuqi Li, Mwafaq Ramzi Haji, Raimi Morufu Olalekan, and @michaelandrades.bsky.social!

The first review from this year's Crowd Preprint Review is out!
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If you would like to join this team, you can still do it! Visit our website and fill out the application! buff.ly/fhTBu5P

First metaresearch crowd review in 💪

Join @creativecommons.bsky.social and ASAPbio in a discussion about joining and endorsing the framework.

Register 👇️
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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 global movement advancing early research sharing and open preprint practices.

Community is at the ❤️ of ASAPbio, and there are many ways to get involved!

✨Join the ASAPbio Slack Community! buff.ly/Pf4RKWy
✨Sign up for the newsletter! buff.ly/9SNsUkW
✨Join us for the Community Call! buff.ly/8XOb80I
✨Follow us on Social Media and share our posts! buff.ly/sGJrZ9C

Crowd Preprint Review – ASAPbio Join ASAPbio's community of preprint reviewers to provide valuable feedback on life science research and help advance open science.

Thank you to the Leads and Crowd members who contribute to this important work! ❤️

Learn more about Crowd Preprint Review here 👉️ buff.ly/fhTBu5P

Crowd Preprint Review – ASAPbio Join ASAPbio's community of preprint reviewers to provide valuable feedback on life science research and help advance open science.

We would like to thank the ASAPbio Crowd Preprint Review Leads for their incredible work!
Jay Patel, @fallonmody.bsky.social, @grinschglsandra.bsky.social, @debrajmanna27.bsky.social, Emmanuel Odame, and Joseph P. Biggane lead the Crowds that collaboratively and openly review preprints!

Thank you, Felipe Del Valle Batalla @fadelvalle.bsky.social, Barakat Mohazab, Akanksha Gupta @iakankshagupta.bsky.social, Kendra Parson, and Emiliya Taskova, for your hard work on this project!

Interim Findings From An Investigation Into LLM Responses About Preprints: A 2025 ASAPbio Fellows Project – ASAPbio Contributors: Felipe Del Valle Batalla, Barakat Bakhit, Akanksha Gupta, Kendra Parson, Emiliya Taskova

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👇️
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❓ Do preprints establish priority of discovery❓
Yes!
✨Preprints have a time stamp.
✨Preprints are publicly available.
✨Preprints can be cited.

#OpenScience #research #science #OpeAccess

Newsletter – ASAPbio Subscribe to ASAPbio's newsletter for updates on preprints, peer review initiatives, and open science developments in life science research.

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!
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Closed licences, closed doors.

We're hosting a webinar with @kr21.bsky.social exploring how licensing shapes real-world research impact, from @opentargets.org to pandemic response.

Speaker panel reveal soon 👀

🗓️ 14 April
⏰ 10:00 BST
🔗 embl-org.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

#OpenScience #AcademicSky 🧪

Preprint Resource Center – ASAPbio Access comprehensive guides, tools, and best practices for publishing and engaging with preprints in the life sciences.

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👇

Understanding The Publish-Review-Curate (PRC) Model Of Scholarly Communication – ASAPbio Keep up to date on open scholarly communication! Check out what’s new on the blog.

How does it work?
☑️ publish an article as preprints, a working paper, or a report,
☑️ submit it to MetaROR
☑️ MetaROR will provide open review and curation (public editorial assessment by the article’s Editor).

Curious to learn more about ‘Publish, Review, Curate’ (PRC)? Visit 👉️ buff.ly/gTb8PGl

Home - MetaROR MetaResearch Open Review MetaResearch Open Review MetaResearch Open Review A new platform designed to transform how we review and share metaresearch A new platform designed to transform

We are delighted to see the growth of the ‘Publish, Review, Curate’ (PRC) initiatives in recent years!🚀
One of them is @metaror.bsky.social (MetaResearch Open Review).
This platform focuses on open peer review and curation of metaresearch articles.

Learn more about MetaROR👉️ metaror.org

Open Science: Why you should preprint your next paper What are preprints and how do they benefit you and your research community? Plus find tools that help you keep up with the preprint literature.

Preprinting means sharing an early version of your research, generally before journal-organised review. Many organisations are starting to offer and recognise peer-reviewed preprints.

But how can preprinting benefit you? Check out our 5 Fs of preprinting.
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Coordinated Reform in Research Assessment and Publishing | DORA On March 10, we heard from Katie Corker (Executive Director, ASAPbio) and Felix Dijkstal (Science Officer, International Science Council) who shared outcomes and next steps stemming from a joint works...

How do we bring publishing & research assessment reforms closer together? Our latest blog dives into the next steps of the Nov 2025 Pisa workshop and the global initiatives pushing coordinated action across the system 👉 sfdora.org/2026/03/20/c...

ASAPbio March Community Call: A Team Effort: Why And How To Do Open Collaborative Peer Review – ASAPbio On March 5th, 2026, the ASAPbio and PREreview teams, along with representatives of some PREreview Clubs, gathered to discuss the ins and outs of conducting

👉 Earlier this month, we co-hosted a community call with @asapbio.bsky.social to explore the power of collaborative peer review, and learn from our PREreview Club leads’ first-hand experience.

🔖 Curious about how it works and how to get involved in a PREreview Club? Learn more:
bit.ly/ASAPbio-blog

Thank you to the speakers:
🌟 @prereview.bsky.social team: @neurosarda.bsky.social, Chris Wilkinson
🌟 PREreview Club Leads: @pranea.bsky.social and Roseline Dzekem Dine
🌟 ASAPbio team: @katiecorker.bsky.social