Promoting equity in visibility, curation and evaluation of preprints

Preprints are freely accessible, but there are persistent disparities in the visibility and attention paid to preprints according to the authors’ institutions, geographical area, language and other backgrounds.

In this Community Call, we discussed how to promote equity in making preprints visible. Bianca Kramer (Sesame Open Science) spoke about how different databases index preprints and whether this may impact how researchers engage with preprints. Maurine Neiman (University of Iowa), Preprint Editor for Proceedings B, shared strategies and risks around scouting preprints, and steps editors can take to ensure a more equitable approach to identifying preprints of interest.

You can read a summary of the Community Call at our blog post.