Popular Preprint Servers Face Closure Because of Money Troubles
Repositories like INA-Rxiv and IndiaRxiv boost regional science, but finding cash to run them is proving difficult.
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Strengthening the Open Science Ecosystem Through Preprints
Preprints, or versions of manuscripts posted online by authors ahead of peer review, are seeing a strong increase in adoption and recognition among many communities in the biomedical sciences.
Releasing a Preprint is Associated with More Attention and Citations for the Peer-reviewed Article
Releasing a Preprint is Associated with More Attention and Citations for the Peer-reviewed Article
This observational study can help researchers and publishers make informed decisions about how to incorporate preprints into their work.
Endorse Preprints with Plaudit
We just integrated Plaudit across OSF preprint servers, now allowing researchers to openly endorse papers they find valuable.
Community Comments and Peer Review: A Preprint Commenting Pilot at PLOS
We're increasing peer review transparency by making it easier for public comments on preprints to be considered in the review process at PLOS journals.
Accelerating Scholarly Communication: The Transformative Role of Preprints
Study explores 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.
The Second Wave of Preprint Servers: How Can Publishers Keep Afloat?
A discussion of the findings of a research study into the recent growth of preprint servers and exploration of how publishers might respond.
In Bid to Boost Transparency, BioRxiv Begins Posting Peer Reviews Next to Preprints
In Bid to Boost Transparency, BioRxiv Begins Posting Peer Reviews Next to Preprints
BioRxiv, the server for life sciences preprints, has begun an experiment that allows select journals and independent peer-review services to publicly post evaluations of its papers should the authors make the request.
TechRxiv™️, IEEE's New Preprint Server for the Global Technology Engineering Community, Now Open for Submissions
TechRxiv™️, IEEE's New Preprint Server for the Global Technology Engineering Community, Now Open for Submissions
TechRxiv, a new preprint server for electrical engineering, computer science and related technologies, has been launched by IEEE, the world’s largest technical professional organization advancing technology for humanity.
Sociologist Says Journal Rejected Her Paper Because She's Shared It Elsewhere As a Preprint, Against Its Own Pro-preprint Policy
Sociologist Says Journal Rejected Her Paper Because She's Shared It Elsewhere As a Preprint, Against Its Own Pro-preprint Policy
Sociologist says journal dismissed her paper because she'd shared it elsewhere as a preprint -- even though the publication had a pro-preprint policy. How often does this happen?
Celebrating 2,000 Submissions on In Review
Scientific manuscript tracking and pre-prints with the In Review service from Springer Nature and Research Square.
Releasing a Preprint is Associated with More Attention and Citations
Preprint examines whether having a preprint on bioRxiv.org was associated with the Altmetric Attention Score and number of citations of the corresponding peer-reviewed article.
The Effect of BioRxiv Preprints on Citations and Altmetrics
Article finds that bioRxiv-deposited journal articles received a sizeable citation and altmetric advantage over non-deposited articles.
Launching Transpose, a Database of Journal Policies on Preprinting & Peer Review
Launching Transpose, a Database of Journal Policies on Preprinting & Peer Review
ASAPbio launched Transpose, a database of journal peer review, co-reviewing, and preprint policies relating to media coverage, licensing, versions, and citation.
New Preprint Server for the Health Sciences Announced Today
medRxiv aims to meet the unique preprint needs of the clinical research community with a free, non-profit service.
Maximising the Benefits of Early Sharing
Having early and rapid access to research findings accelerates the pace of science and is paramount for advancing discovery. Springer Nature considers itself ideally placed to help facilitate this and making great research available as quickly as possible to the research community.
Are Preprints Paving the Way to Science in Real Time?
It is undeniable that preprints are a growing force in the scholarly communication landscape - but what does their future look like?
Springer Nature Journals Unify Their Policy to Encourage Preprint Sharing
Recognizing the benefits, we move from merely supporting the use of preprint servers to promoting it.
Posting a Preprint Made Our Paper Better
A tale of preprints, publications, and (kind of) open peer review.
Meta-Research: Tracking the Popularity and Outcomes of All BioRxiv Preprints
Meta-Research: Tracking the Popularity and Outcomes of All BioRxiv Preprints
The growth of preprints in the life sciences has been reported widely and is driving policy changes for journals and funders, but little quantitative information has been published about preprint usage. Here, we report how we collected and analyzed data on all 37,648 preprints uploaded to bioRxiv.org, the largest biology-focused preprint server, in its first five years.
Self-organising Peer Review for Preprints - A Future Paradigm for Scholarly Publishing
Self-organising Peer Review for Preprints - A Future Paradigm for Scholarly Publishing
The development of preprint servers as self-organising peer review platforms could be the future of scholarly publication.
On the Value of Preprints: an Early Career Researcher Perspective
A perspective from an interdisciplinary group of early career researchers on the value of preprints, advocating the wide adoption of preprints to advance knowledge and facilitate career development.
Sharing New Educational Resources
We’re happy to share two new documents that we hope will aid researchers in their decision to share early work as preprints.
Preprints Promote Transparency and Communication
The potential of preprints to drive scientific understanding and innovation, and even support good journalism.
Preprints Could Promote Confusion and Distortion
The scientific community must take measures to keep preprints from distorting the public’s understanding of science, says Tom Sheldon.
The Preprint Dilemma: Good for Science, Bad for the Public? A Discussion Paper for the Scientific Community
The Preprint Dilemma: Good for Science, Bad for the Public? A Discussion Paper for the Scientific Community
This essay is an appeal to the scientific community - researchers, publishers and communicators - to take stock and engage in a discussion of the wider impacts of preprint.
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