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<div>Very interesting initiative, indeed:</div>
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<span style="font-weight:bold">De : </span>Admin <<a href="mailto:jessica.polka@gmail.com">jessica.polka@gmail.com</a>><br>
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<span style="font-weight:bold">Date : </span>Mon, 15 Aug 2016 23:20:13 +0200<br>
<span style="font-weight:bold">À : </span>Serge Bauin <<a href="mailto:serge.bauin@cnrs.fr">serge.bauin@cnrs.fr</a>><br>
<span style="font-weight:bold">Objet : </span>ASAPbio newsletter vol 3 - REQUESTING FEEDBACK on a central preprint service for biology<br>
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<div><span style="font-weight: 400;">Dear ASAPbio subscriber,</span><br>
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<span style="font-weight: 400;">It’s been an exciting few months at ASAPbio! Here’s what’s happened:</span><br>
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<li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">The report of our February meeting at HHMI was published in
</span><a href="http://science.sciencemag.org/content/352/6288/899.full"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Science</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, and Ron Vale and Tony Hyman recently published an article about priority of discovery & preprints in
</span><a href="https://elifesciences.org/content/5/e16931"><span style="font-weight: 400;">eLife</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">.</span></li><li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;"><a href="https://www.simonsfoundation.org/uncategorized/foundations-announce-support-for-scientist-driven-effort-to-promote-use-of-preprints-in-the-life-sciences/">ASAPbio was awarded grants totalling
$400,000</a> in provisional funding from the Arnold, Sloan, Simons, and Moore foundations for a period of 18 months.</span></li><li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">We held a </span><a href="http://asapbio.org/asapbio-funders-workshop"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Funders’ Workshop</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> at the NIH on May 24th.</span></li><li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">As an output of this, representatives from funding agencies
</span><a href="http://asapbio.org/summary-of-the-asapbio-funders-workshop"><span style="font-weight: 400;">called for ASAPbio to develop a proposal for a preprint service for biology</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">.</span></li><li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">In response to this request, we’re now seeking</span><b> feedback from the community on a draft
</b><a href="http://asapbio.org/summary-of-a-central-preprint-service-model"><b>proposal for a central preprint service</b></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">that could aggregate content from multiple servers.
</span><b>Please consider leaving a public comment on the web and sharing the link with your networks</b><span style="font-weight: 400;">. After future iterations, we will present several variations to funders in the fall.</span></li><li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">To develop the technical aspects of this proposal, we’re hosting a
</span><a href="http://asapbio.org/asapbio-technical-workshop"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Technical Workshop</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;"> in Cambridge, MA on 8/30. </span></span><span style="font-weight: 400;">We’re
aiming to provide a video stream so that anyone can follow along.</span></li></ul>
<span style="font-weight: 400;">Finally, effective 8/1, I’m now serving as full-time director of ASAPbio! Please don’t hesitate to contact me with any comments, questions, or ideas on how we can work together to advance the productive use of preprints in biology.</span><br>
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<span style="font-weight: 400;">Best,</span><br>
<span style="font-weight: 400;">Jessica Polka, PhD</span><br>
<span style="font-weight: 400;">Director, ASAPbio</span><br>
<span style="font-weight: 400;">@jessicapolka</span><br>
<span style="font-weight: 400;"><a href="mailto:jessica.polka@gmail.com">jessica.polka@gmail.com</a></span><br>
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