Nice Squirrel
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http://chronicle.com/blogs/ticker/i...be-disrupted-asapbio-briefly-explained/109494
Basically they are looking to supplement peer review with prepublishing sharing of research and inviting feedback.
Thoughts?
[YOUTUBE]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2zMgY8Dx9co[/YOUTUBE]A group of biologists gathered last month outside Washington, D.C., for a conference that could help spur change in how the discipline publishes its work. United under the name ASAPbio, attendees discussed how they might upend the traditional publishing structure in the interest of speeding up scientific discovery and making scholarship more publicly accessible.
Basically they are looking to supplement peer review with prepublishing sharing of research and inviting feedback.
Thoughts?