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Meet the ASAPbio Fellows! Teena Bajaj is a graduate student at UC Berkeley. Besides research, Teena has a deep interest in science communication through open research. She also enjoyed participating in the Crowd Preprint Review.

The Transparency and Openness Promotion (TOP) Guidelines have been influential in shaping publishing norms for open research practices. Recently, a major update was proposed to those guidelines. Join us for the Lunch and Learn to learn more about it! https://lnkd.in/ePUPt-Xe

#Preprint fact-checking 🥇 Scoop protection: Allows 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

Crowd Preprint Review activities have already started, but you can still join! We invite cell biologists, microbiologists, computational biologists, and meta-researchers to sign up as crowd preprint reviewers.

We are calling on Africa-based: 🌍 Researchers 🌍 Librarians and Supporting Staff 🌍 Administrators, Funding Bodies, and Policymakers Join the workshops that aims to gather views and input on preprint usage and adoption in Africa. Deadline: September 30!

A group of 2024 ASAPbio Fellows are currently conducting a survey on the experiences of crowd reviewers with the Crowd Preprint Review Program. To celebrate peer review week we've released a sneak peak at some of our findings! Read more in our blog post:

Meet the ASAPbio Fellows! Syeda Azra Shaheen is a research intern at the University of Hyderabad. Syeda participates in the Fellows program because it offers a valuable opportunity to expand her knowledge of preprints and open research and engage with peers with similar interests. The program’s emphasis on collaboration and support resonates with Syeda's dedication to advancing open science initiatives. Syeda believes that by joining the program, she can contribute positively to the culture of openness in research.

🔔 Only a few days left to register! If you are an 🌍 Africa-based researcher, librarian, administrator, funder, or policymaker, join ASAPbio Fellows for a discussion on preprint usage and adoption. The deadline to sign up is September 30!

The new Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation open access policy: 📝 mandates preprints for all grantees, 📝 encourages preprint peer review, 🚫 removes funding for APC’s. Join us on November 6th as we host Ashley Farley for a Q&A on the new policy.

Together with Lisa Cuevas Shaw, PhD (Center for Open Science), we (ASAPbio) are releasing a prototype directory of organizations and initiatives in open scholarly communication. Learn more here, and let us know what you think! Of relevance for peer review week - the list contains several orgs and initiatives focused on scholar-led, open ways of doing peer review - check them out! https://lnkd.in/enD3Q6BC