« There is a quiet revolution taking place in scientific publishing and almost everyone I speak to thinks it’s long overdue. One aspect of the revolution is ‘preprints’, the practise of making scientific papers available to any experts for scrutiny before journal peer review and publication. (…) »
« From July 2018, the Europe PMC repository will start indexing preprints. Making preprints discoverable through Europe PMC will make the science reported in preprints more widely discoverable and support their inclusion into workflows such as grant reporting, article citing and credit and attribution. This blog post explains why we have…
« Mary Yianni, Publisher at Taylor & Francis, reviews the different models of peer review and explains the emerging role of preprints in biomedical sciences, including feedback from the recent 14th Annual Meeting of ISMPP (…) »
« From June, 2018, the Lancet family of journals are starting a 6-month trial in collaboration with the freely accessible preprint platform SSRN, which has been part of Elsevier since May, 2016. With this pilot, we are interested to see whether health and medical researchers are ready for…
« We explore the degree to which papers prepublished on arXiv garner more citations, in an attempt to paint a sharper picture of fairness issues related to prepublishing. A paper’s citation count is estimated using a negative-binomial generalized linear model (GLM) while observing a binary variable which indicates whether the paper…
« (…) Now, a range of innovative services, organisations, and platforms are rapidly developing around preprints, prompting this overview of the present ecosystem on behalf of Knowledge Exchange. (…) »
« Preprints are here!!! Starting today authors submitting their manuscript to most PLOS journals* can also choose to post their article on bioRxiv, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory’s preprint server for the life sciences. This is an important development for both PLOS, for bioRxiv, for the authors we serve, and for the…
« The American Chemical Society (ACS) today announced its partnership with the Royal Society of Chemistry and the German Chemical Society (GDCh) to support the financial and strategic development of ChemRxiv, the premier preprint server for the global chemistry community. This strategic partnership among three of the largest…
« Preprints — versions of research papers made publicly available prior to formal publication in a peer reviewed journal — continue to be a topic of much discussion within the medical publications community. As the industry looks at ways to improve and advance the transparent and timely dissemination of research, preprints…
« On Thursday, 25 January, 2018, representatives from many of the major preprint servers and other related organizations gathered in person and remotely to discuss annotation use cases around preprint content. (…)
