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The overall objective of this study was to explore the place of preprints in the research lifecycle from the points of view of researchers, research performing organisations, research funding organisations and preprint servers/service providers. Our investigation covered:
Core benefits and usage in the case of researchers, including incentives…« Preprints are gaining visibility in many fields. Thanks to the explosion of bioRxiv, an online server for preprints in biology, versions of manuscripts prior to the completion of journal-organized peer review are poised to become a standard component of the publishing experience in the life sciences. Here we provide an…
« (…) PREreview seeks to diversify peer review by crowdsourcing preprint feedback to improve the quality of published scientific output, and to train early-career researchers in how to constructively review other scientists’ work.
Together, we want to push for a radical change in how researchers engage with scholarly output, when…
« The American Chemical Society, the Gesellschaft Deutscher Chemiker (German Chemical Society) and the Royal Society of Chemistry today announce their partnership with the Chinese Chemical Society and the Chemical Society of Japan as co-owners to support the strategic and financial development of ChemRxiv, the premier preprint…
» Open Access India and the Center for Open Science have collaborated to launch IndiaRxiv, India’s first preprint service. IndiaRxiv began as a vision for a single open platform that could provide free access to all publicly-funded research…
« Knowledge Exchange has been investigating the preprints landscape since 2018. Our recent research, which included an extensive literature review (60+ sources), 38 stakeholder interviews and qualitative coding, led to the development of this flowchart depicting the evolving role of preprints within the scholarly communication process. (…) »
« Publishers’ policies on pre-prints, citation, licensing and versioning can be at best hard to find and at times confusing. This can hinder the research process and act as a barrier for researchers, as well as librarians and funders. A new grassroots initiative called Transpose, launched in June 2019 will do…
« Preprint usage is growing rapidly in the life sciences; however, questions remain on the relative quality of preprints when compared to published articles. An objective dimension of quality that is readily measurable is completeness of reporting, as transparency can improve the reader’s ability to independently interpret data and reproduce findings.…
« Depuis 2018, l’association internationale Knowledge Exchange étudie l’écosystème passionnant de la science ouverte (appelée Open Scholarship au sein de cette organisation) en constante évolution. À sa demande, la société Research Consulting a mené une étude sur l’état et l’impact des prépublications, dont l’ampleur est manifeste, et…