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Preprints are receiving welcome attention these days for being an integral part of research communication. We announce that starting this week researchers will be able to directly submit their manuscripts to PeerJ for peer review from the popular preprint server bioRxiv.
An overview of recent events and the current state of preprints in the scholarly communications landscape.
Preprint posting is the right thing to do for science and society. It enables us to share our results earlier, speeding up the pace of science.
A report from the the Open Science Conference in Berlin last week.
Agency welcomes raw manuscripts of findings that haven’t yet been peer reviewed.
eLife has made it possible to submit the work first to eLife and then post the manuscript directly to bioRxiv.
Papers reporting Gates-sponsored research cannot be charged for.
Preprints are clearly the future of scientific communication, but currently face multiple obstacles.
Funders, scientists, and journal editors will continue to play vital roles in defining a communication system that embraces both modern technology and the human need for curation.
BioRxiv is a pre-print repository for life science researchers who can now easily share their unpublished work with the research community.
Though no money is committed yet, major science funders back idea of an aggregator of preprints
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) is working with an international group of research funders to explore the value and feasibility of establishing a Central Service for preprints. This is a unique opportunity to encourage sharing of preprints in the life sciences and to support the development of a core infrastructure to ensure the benefits of pre-printing are fully realized.
We now allow researchers to cite preprints in their grant applications.
Coalition of scientists and research agencies argue for a one-stop shop server.
Please cosign the statement below if you think the NIH should give scientists the option of using preprints as evidence of productivity in grant applications, following the recent policies of the Wellcome Trust, MRC, HFSP, Simons Foundation, and Helmsley Foundation.
A geneticist's decision not to publish his finalized preprint in a journal gets support from scientists online.
Envisioning the scientific paper of the future.
So why make your work available as preprints? There are perceived positives and negatives to disclosing scientific work in the form of a preprint, explored here in the form of 10 Simple Rules.
Preprints are one step towards an Open Science future.
Consortium backed by US NIH is first major biology programme to mandate online publication of results ahead of peer review.
How can more scholars and journals embrace preprints to make research freely accessible? This slideshow co-created by Scholastica and Authorea addresses this question and more.
