« In recent years, major publishing houses have increased the attention they have been giving to preprints, as my colleague Oya Rieger and I outlined this spring. Springer Nature’s initiative in this arena is in partnership with the Research Square Company, in which it recently invested further…
« Preprints are becoming well established in the life sciences, but relatively little is known about the demographics of the researchers who post preprints and those who do not, or about the collaborations between preprint authors. Here, based on an analysis of 67,885 preprints posted on bioRxiv, we find that some…
« At the annual meeting of ISMPP this year, the way that publishers engage with preprints was identified as a key trend for the future of medical communications. In their article for the Scholarly Kitchen, Roger Schonfeld and Oya Rieger discuss this subject…
« In this pandemic, researchers have responded by publishing results rapidly, often through preprints.
In fact, up to half of the publications in Europe PMC on COVID-19 are preprints rather than peer-reviewed journal articles. Currently, the full text of these preprints are scattered as PDFs on preprint servers, or, available…
« agriRxiv – pronounced agri-archive, and previously known as AgriXiv – is to be relaunched with a new website offering researchers and students access to preprints across agriculture and allied sciences. (…) »
« The objective of this review is to identify all preprint platforms with biomedical and medical scope and to compare and contrast the key characteristics and policies of these platforms. We also aim to provide a searchable database to enable relevant stakeholders to compare between platforms. (…) »
« (…) The purpose of this issue brief is to provide an overview of the preprint landscape in the first half of 2020 as we witness rapid changes to how they are perceived and utilized.[4] While we write within the context of a gathering and growing global pandemic, where…
« (…) While preprints accounted for just 2.2% of all papers indexed on the life sciences search engine PubMed in 2019, they make up an estimated 34% of all COVID-19-related papers indexed on PubMed since January 2020. (…)
Listed below are three online platforms aimed at…
« The SciELO Program has launched the SciELO Preprints server – http://preprints.scielo.org – with the aim of accelerating the availability of research articles and other scientific communications before, or in parallel with, their evaluation and validation by scientific journals through the peer review process. Although open to…
« This webinar consists of three presentations
Preprints: where are we now?
Jessica Polka, PhD, Executive Director, ASAPbio
What are preprints, and why are they growing so rapidly in many disciplines? Focusing on the life sciences, I’ll provide an overview of the kinetics of their adoption as well…
