A digest of news about preprints, open peer reviews, and other innovations in publishing in the life sciences
African scientists launch their own preprint repository
Source: Nature
The EMBO Journal announces “extended scooping protection” for preprints
“EMBO Press has now gone one step further to extend scooping protection to the day of posting the preprint version of the manuscript.”
Crossref begins indexing preprints
Preprints are able to receive a DOI that eventually will link to the published paper
Moore Foundation requests grantee feedback on preprint policy
The Data-Driven Discovery group at the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation released a post on Medium today soliciting feedback on proposed changes to their policies on a variety of open access practices. Preprints are discussed as follows: Ideally, all journal articles would first be available as preprints. Preprints are versions of your manuscript that are not…
Simons Foundation supports preprints in grants
On May 20, 2016, a Simons Foundation initiative, SFARI, announced that it has changed its policies to support and encourage the use of preprints. The Simons Foundation Autism Research Initiative (SFARI) recently made two important changes that we hope will help to accelerate the pace of autism research. First, we changed our grant award letter…
Marty Chalfie sends letter to the worm community
Marty Chalfie recently sent the following message to readers of The Worm Breeder’s Gazette: February 19, 2016 Dear Fellow Worm Workers, I have just returned from a very exciting meeting on archiving of manuscripts (preprints) in the biological sciences organized by Daniel Colón Ramos, Jessica Polka, Ron Vale, and Harold Varmus (See asapbio.org for more information),…
NY Times Op-Ed calls for wider use of preprints
In their September 17 opinion piece, “Don’t Delay News of Medical Breakthroughs,” Eric Topol and Harlan Krumholz call for rapid publication of scientific results.