On July 19, 2017, ASAPbio (Accelerating Science and Publication in biology) held “The Evolving Preprint Ecosystem” an all-day meeting in Cambridge, MA. A video of the meeting is linked below.
From the Description:
The preprint ecosystem is growing rapidly. The CZI/bioRxiv partnership will fuel the expansion of the leading preprint server in the life sciences. Many other servers and platforms exist or are planned, with varying degrees of disciplinary overlap (arXiv, PeerJ Preprints, preprints.org, OSF Preprints, ChemRxiv, SSRN, SciELO, PsyArxiv, EngArXiv, SocArXiv, Authorea, F1000Research, etc). Funding agencies are enacting policies supporting preprints, such as those developed by the Wellcome Trust and the Medical Research Council, while agencies like the NIH have gone a step further and developed guidelines for selecting a preprint server. Furthermore, the integration of preprints into the research culture will open doors for the publication of other types of interim research products such as theses, hypotheses, protocols, single-figure publications, data papers, software papers, etc.
The goal of this meeting is to identify any gaps/opportunities in the preprint ecosystem, which in turn will help to inform the revision of ASAPbio’s plans before the close of our RFA suspension.
Meeting Video
The complete meeting was recorded and is available here.
Agenda and Slides
Wednesday, July 19 – All times EDT
10:15 Arrivals and coffee
10:30 Welcome & goals of the meeting – Ron Vale and Jessica Polka (slides)
10:40 Welcome to the American Academy – John Randell
10:50 Overview of planned CZI-bioRxiv developments
. Jeremy Freeman, John Inglis, Richard Sever
. Questions (5 min)
11:15 Other planned preprint developments (10 min each, max)
. PLOS – Louise Page (slides)
. SciELO – Abel Packer (slides)
. bioRN – Gregg Gordon
. COS – Brian Nosek (slides)
. Preprints.org – Martyn Rittman
. Others (from the floor)
12:00 Lunch
12:30 Open discussion on the preprint ecosystem and infrastructure needs
. Moderated by Robert Kiley
. Jeremy Freeman (verbal remarks)
. Phil Bourne (slides)
13:30 Existing funder recommendations – Moderated by Ron Vale
. Neil Thakur (slides)
. Discussion on additional recommendations/standards
14:30 Approaches to reinforcing standards/best practices
. Moderated by Jessica Polka (5 min each)
. Agreement among community of servers – Oya Rieger (slides)
. Whitelist/consumer reports – Carly Strasser
. Search tool indexing compliant servers – Jo McEntyre (slides)
. Educational module – Jeff Spies (verbal remarks)
. Discussion
15:45 Coffee break
16:00 Services to support preprints, such as manuscript screening and conversion
. Moderated by Ron Vale and Jessica Polka
16:45 Concluding thoughts from around the room – comments from participants
17:30 Adjourn
Additional Resources
UPDATE: Principles & Best Practices for Preprints (Post and Slide From Oya Rieger, Cornell University)
via arXiv Wiki.
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