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Building Stronger Chains Together: Keeping Preprints Connected to the Scholarly Record - The Scholarly Kitchen

Building Stronger Chains Together: Keeping Preprints Connected to the Scholarly Record - The Scholarly Kitchen

In the global supply chain of scholarly communications, we share a responsibility for accurate metadata that represents the publication lifecycle -- from preprint to version of record, and everything in between.

Refereed Preprints Recognized As Eligibility Criterion for EMBO Postdoctoral Fellowships - Features - EMBO

Refereed Preprints Recognized As Eligibility Criterion for EMBO Postdoctoral Fellowships - Features - EMBO

EMBO will accept first author refereed preprints in applications for postdoctoral fellowships in a four-month trial.

Biophysics Colab Brings Review and Curation to Biophysical Preprints on Sciety

Biophysics Colab Brings Review and Curation to Biophysical Preprints on Sciety

Biophysics Colab brings review and curation to biophysical preprints on Sciety

Preprint Advocates Must Also Fight for Research Integrity

Preprint Advocates Must Also Fight for Research Integrity

Efforts to share research with the public must include mechanisms to prevent harm resulting from low-quality work.

Banning Preprints from Grant Applications Penalises Researchers for Being Up-to-date

Banning Preprints from Grant Applications Penalises Researchers for Being Up-to-date

A sudden rule change by the Australian Research Council-to ban grant applications that cite preprint material-has deemed 32 early and mid-career researchers ineligible to receive critical funding.

Sciety Adds Three New Groups Evaluating COVID-19 Preprints

Sciety Adds Three New Groups Evaluating COVID-19 Preprints

Our three new groups have met this challenge by producing high-quality screenings, reviews and summaries of key findings, and Sciety has brought them all together in one convenient and accessible place.

ELife Latest: Authors Can Now Submit a Manuscript to the Journal and MedRxiv at the Same Time

ELife Latest: Authors Can Now Submit a Manuscript to the Journal and MedRxiv at the Same Time

As eLife transitions to exclusively reviewing preprints, we have integrated medRxiv into our submission process for the rapid sharing of new medical research.

Imposters and Impersonators in Preprints: How Do We Trust Authors in Open Science?

Imposters and Impersonators in Preprints: How Do We Trust Authors in Open Science?

Preprints play a crucial role in open science but offer an opportunity to be gamed. Fictitious authorship in preprints show that open science needs checks and we need to collaborate to govern Open Science.

Is Preprint the Future of Science? A Thirty Year Journey of Online Preprint Services

Is Preprint the Future of Science? A Thirty Year Journey of Online Preprint Services

Preprints make scholarly communication more efficient by disseminating scientific discoveries more rapidly. The measurements presented in this study can help researchers and policymakers make informed decisions about how to effectively use and responsibly embrace a preprint culture.

Preprints in Motion: Tracking Changes Between Posting and Journal Publication

Preprints in Motion: Tracking Changes Between Posting and Journal Publication

Study utilised a combination of automatic and manual annotations to quantify how an article from early 2020 changed between the preprinted and published version.

How the World is Adapting to Preprints

How the World is Adapting to Preprints

Preprint servers have become an indispensable part of scholarly publishing. The next step is learning how to embrace them.

Encouraging Preprint Curation and Review

Encouraging Preprint Curation and Review

Review and commentary can help authors improve their articles; curation can provide readers with helpful context and enhance discoverability. But despite the benefits, barriers to reviewing and curating preprints remain.