ASAPbio-supports-preprint-adoption-in-the-life-sciences.srt

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Iratxe Puebla: My name is Iratxe Puebla and I'm an
Associate Director for as a

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ASAPBio, which is a non for profit
organization with a mission to

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drive innovation and
transparency to life sciences

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communication. We have a great
interest in supporting adoption

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and awareness around preprints
in terms of how life sciences is

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communicated, I was gonna
mention a little bit for

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context, the activities that we
run around preprints. We

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regularly run projects and
gather stakeholders together to

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discuss the different elements
of the preferences, ecosystem,

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water, which are there perhaps
upcoming challenges or subjects

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that may require on developing
some principles or structures

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etc. We also develop resources
are related to preference mostly

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focus on providing information
for results so that they can

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make informed choices when they
choose to prepare, but they're

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also available to obviously any
stakeholder in life in life

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sciences communication. And we
also run the ASAPBio

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community, which is an online
global community of mostly

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researchers, but also some other
stakeholders, who also have an

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interest in supporting again,
awareness and adoption of

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preprints. So we're here to
talk preprints, what's

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preprints, one of the
perennial common set of

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questions and there is no common
definition or unique definition.

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So I'm going to give you one
that covers quite a few of the

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elements. Essentially, and many
of you may already be familiar

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anyway with what preprint may 
encompass. But a preprint is

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generally considered a scholarly
manuscript that is posted by the

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authors to a 
repository or platform to

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facilitate the open and broad
sharing of the early work

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without limitations on access.
And a definition or description

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that I quite like and I tend to
reuse is one that was mentioned

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by John Inglis with who is the
co-founder of the preprint

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servers by bioRxiv on medRxiv, 
who has to refer to

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preprint as the "director's cut"
of a manuscript which essentially

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assume that they also are happy
to share with our community and

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our peers, knowing that perhaps
you may undergo changes they may

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updated once they get feedback,
or it undergoes peer review. So

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there are a number of elements
in that definition, and then how

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we work with preprints. That may
sound very familiar to how we

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publish articles and journals.
So I thought I would go very

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briefly over some of the
similarities, but also how

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preprints are different from
from journal articles. The

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similarities is, as we said,
well, both articles and

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preference report the scholarly
work. And generally again, some

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preprint servers cover different
outputs. But generally a

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preprint is the full paper with
all the information about the

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study that allows others to
replicate it, to appraise it to

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provide comments etc. preprints
are generally assigned a DOI,

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there are some exceptions to
this like archive who we use,

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they use their own persistent
identifier system. But again,

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the majority in the majority of
cases, they receive a DOI so

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that they traced unfound. And
obviously, they can decide that

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if you have use that in your
work, you can add a reference on

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again, find that through the
DOI. However, there are also

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differences between preprints
and publications and journals.

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The most important is that the
preprint servers we take will

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take the version of the paper
that you submit, generally, they

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do some basic screening just to
take that instant results

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paper and there is nothing
hugely problematic. And they

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will post the paper without peer
review. And a few other

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differences that I thought was
worth mentioning is that

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preference allow versioning.
Again, the authors This means

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that the authors can post a new
version again, make updates on

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new work to their paper and post
a new version on the server and

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link to this it means that
correcting the paper if you need

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to correct it tends to be much
easier and faster than when you

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publish a paper that you're not
aware enough to go through the

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editorial process again. So they
decide how do they post a

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correction what goes into it,
etc. So from that perspective,

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that there is an element of ease
and fluidity to use in

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preprint. So why are the results
of using or choosing to use

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preptint. The first important
benefit of preference is the

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fact that there is the speed of
the dissemination. They allow

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you

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to make the work available
almost immediately. If you're

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familiar with the journal
publication process, you will

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know that it can take weeks or
months and sometimes if it goes

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wrong even years to essentially
go through the editorial process

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until the journal will publish
the work make it publicly

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available. And obviously
sometimes you may get rejected

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and you have to submit to another
journal and restart the clock

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etc. By comparison, if you post
your paper to a preprint server,

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it will be available in a matter
of days, generally, again,

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depending on the screening
process, which means that you

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have a record that you can sell
with your community and request

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comments. And all of that can
happen very quickly. And you can

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do it either before or in
parallel to also submit into

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a journal. Another important
benefit of preprints is that

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they are free to both post and
free to access, there is no

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publication fee as you may have
found during open access. There

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is no element of issues with
access they provide free access

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there are not subscriptions or
paywalls, which means that you

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can actually reach quite a wide
audience. A number of indexing

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services such as Google Scholar
and EuropeanPMC, actually

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include certain preprints that
also provides visibility and

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PubMed also, it now is running a
pilot related to COVID-19

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preprints. So you can reach a
wide audience, which is which

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can also be useful in terms of
your work and gathering

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attention for your study and
potentially attack more

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citations, there's been a number
of studies that have looked at

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the relationship between the
presence of a

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preprint and the citations on
the dental journal publication

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for the same work and they
consistently saw that one there

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is a prior associated preprint.
For the for that work. The

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actual journal publication
attracts more citation. So say

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you've given a head start to
other people to build on

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your work. And another element
that I wanted to mention that we

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are very passionate about in
terms of preprint, this

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element of allowing a
community feedback, you can get

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the link of your preference,
right with all the others in

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your community request comments
that you can use to again,

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perhaps build on your work,
revise your paper, improve it.

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And it can also be an
opportunity to open in

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collaborations with all those
because there may be other

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groups who are working in a
similar line of results as you

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and you can get, they may
contact you after seeing your

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your preprint. And as something
that has happened recently is

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that journals have also taken
an interest in this. And some of

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them have appointed editors who
say what's the latest papers

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posted on preprint servers and
may even invite submission to

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their journal. So you can
actually increase the

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publication chances for your
event on your paper. And so I

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wanted to spend a few minutes
giving a few tips in terms of

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making the print print and
experience as positive as

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possible. So just a few pointers
if you've decided to preprint

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something a few of the things
that I would recommend thinking

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about. The first one is to have
a little bit of a thinking as to

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which preprint server you would
like to post your paper to the

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preprint server ecosystem is
different from journals, and there is

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no 1000s of
servers necessarily, but there's

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been quite a few new platforms
that have launched over the last

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few years. And now specifically
for the life sciences, which is

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again where we work there are
around 50 servers available. So

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as I have said, I recommand
you take a look at the ASAPbio

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preprint server directory which
have a list of the different

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platforms with characteristics
that you can check and compare

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to fit your needs. There are a
few you know general-purpose

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repositories that also take or lets say
apart from the fact that they

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were set up to take mostly
datasets and their outputs,

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they will also take a full
paper. So for example, Zenodo

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and Figshare and they will
assign you a DOI as I said or

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explained earlier. One thing to
consider, as you're thinking

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where to post, obviously this is
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thing that can be useful is to
try to think about what elements

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are important for you in and what
you want to get out of, again,

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sharing your work as
preprint. One possible

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consideration is visibility. The
different servers have different

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communities associated with
them. So some pay more attention

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to certain servers, etc. So you
may want to think which is the

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best server to for your
audience, for your paper that

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also some, for example, funders
on again, indexing services that

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have certain criteria
recommendations for the service

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that they recommend. So you may
want to take that into account

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if that's something that is
relevant for your work in terms

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of submitting to a server that
fits the requirements from your

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funder.

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And as you are again, preparing
to submit You should also think

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if you are eventually thinking
of also submitting to a journal

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check the journal policy on
preprint. The majority of the

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journal in the life sciences
accept work that has been posted

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as preprint but they may have
different policies in terms of

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the type of preprint servers
that they accept or when they

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are happy to see the paper
posted as a preprint compared to

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the journal submission. So that's
something useful to check out.

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Add an important consideration
is also to think about the

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license that you would like to
apply to your preprint. There

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are a number of licenses
available, I list the resource

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that we have on as a ASAPbio
related to the Creative Commons

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licenses. One thing to remember
is that certain preprint areas

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allow a variety of licenses you
can choose from while some

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models actually restrict the
licenses. And actually, some all

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will only post on the CC-BY so
something that you should check

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prior to post them. Right. So
once you have made your choice

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in terms of the servers, you
obviously so prepare your

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manuscript, be as careful as you
will be one submit into a

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journal, perhaps even more. But
one important element is of

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course, it and this is the same
as when you submit to a journal,

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they usually have all of the all
authors on board with pre printed

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so make sure that you have that
conversation with your co

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authors where again, we have a
number of resources on the ace

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of ASAPbio website that can help
with some of those conversations

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or some questions that people
may have about preprint. And

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then obviously, we very much
support open science so we

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recommend that you take steps to
also sell the data reagents or

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tools that we've been just
discussing in the earlier

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exercise you can add links to
that to your preprint so that

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the preprint can again be
available for for anyone

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interested in your paper in your
work to also find the associated

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outputs. Right. So once you have
done all of that, obviously go

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ahead and post the preprint
will be available again either

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immediately if there is no prior
screening prior to posting or

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yes in a matter of days and then
we very much say yes to a result

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of that they take the
opportunity to encourage

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feedback and and so their work
with us on social media or email

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again try to kind of create the
bottom of the prepared and a

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conversation going about your
work. And with that, I wanted to

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stop there and you have my
contact details there and on the

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on the agenda document or and I
also included here the link the

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link to for the a survey
communities. Would you be

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interested in joining us with
some resources and we exchange

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ideas about preprints they also
You're very welcome to join us.

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Thank you so much.