Building trust in preprints together
On January 20 and 21, 2020, over 30 representatives from preprint servers, publishers, funders, standards, indexing and metadata infrastructure organisations, and beyond, gathered at EMBL-EBI to develop ambitious but achievable recommendations for metadata and processes that would improve the discoverability, reuse, and interoperability of preprints in the life and biomedical sciences.
Preprints and ethical publishing practice: COPE’s Discussion document as a stepping stone to best practice guidelines
By Iratxe Puebla, Facilitation and Integrity Officer, COPE The use of preprints in the life sciences has increased over recent years and has sparked a number of conversations about their use, as well as their potential benefits and challenges. It is fair to say that there are differing views around preprints; while some communities use…
NISO and Preprints: Interoperability, Engagement, and Education
Alice Meadows, Director of Community Engagement, and Jill O’Neill, Director of Content, NISO Preprints have come a long way in the past few years. The granddaddy of digital preprint platforms is, of course, arXiv (launched in 1991). But although it was joined by a handful of others over the years, including SSRN way back in…
Search for preprints in your native language with PanLingua
The majority of scholarly work in biology is published in English, a language most of the world does not speak. To help remediate this key issue hindering inclusive scientific dialogue, Humberto Debat and Rich Abdill built PanLingua, a multilingual preprint search tool intended to enable search and global access to machine translations of all preprints hosted by bioRxiv.
Reimagining review in a world of preprints
At the 2019 ASCB|EMBO cell biology meeting, we convened researchers, funders, publishers, and advocates in a panel discussion focused on making use of peer review on preprints. The use of preprints in the biomedical sciences has been increasing exponentially in recent years as it is becoming a common practice in research dissemination. Free from journal brands, preprints enable innovations…