Recently, there has been a great deal of heated debate surrounding the subject of bioscience preprints.
Preprints are the nearly-immediate release of scientific findings through online platforms, rather than through traditional scientific journals, such as Science, Nature, or Cell.
Indeed, there has not just been conversation, but an entire movement that has grown to support the trend toward rapid release of bioscience papers in digital form.
The rallying cry of this movement has become “ASAPbio,” with the website ASAPbio.org launched October 30, 2015, as a “focal point for engaging the biology community in a discussion about the role that preprints could play in communicating results in the life sciences.” [Read more…]