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A digest of news about preprints, open peer reviews, and other innovations in publishing in the life sciences

Journal-independent peer review recognized by Plan S
2022-07-06

Refereed preprints recognized as eligibility criterion for EMBO Postdoctoral Fellowships
2022-04-25

MBoC launches Preprint Highlights
2022-03-23

bioRxiv supports videos related to preprints
2022-03-18

Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST) announces launch of Jxiv
2022-03-11

Nature reports that half of authors chose transparent peer review
2022-03-03

arXiv launches HTML articles
2022-02-21

Howard Hughes Medical Institute funds the preprint review platform Review Commons
2022-02-15

Europe PMC makes it easier to identify withdrawn & removed preprints
2021-12-01

Europe PMC adds email alerts for preprints
2021-11-11

Docmaps pilot for community preprint reviews and evaluations announced
2021-08-30

bioRxiv introduces B2X, enabling authors to transfer manuscripts to third-party services
2021-08-20

bioRxiv launches new evaluation dashboard
2021-05-14

NLM provides update on NIH preprint pilot for PubMed & PMC
2021-04-27

eLife announces plans to exclusively review preprints
2020-12-01

Internet Archive preserves preprints
2020-09-23

European Commission seeks endorsement for COVID-19 manifesto calling for preprints, open licenses, and more
2020-08-28

Europe PMC to include the full text of COVID-19 preprints
2020-06-08

NCBI announces forthcoming pilot of preprints in PMC
2020-06-01

EarthArXiv announces new partnership with California Digital Library
2020-05-20

AgriRxiv announces partnership with CABI
2020-05-07

Publishers launch COVID-19 “rapid reviewer” list; encourage review transfer and highlighting preprints
2020-04-27

PLOS Biology launches linked articles
2020-04-14

SciELO preprints launches
2020-04-07

Fast Grants for COVID-19 science require preprinting
2020-04-07

Europe PMC enhances display of preprint version history
2020-03-04

Michael J. Fox Foundation requires preprint posting
2020-03-03

Public Knowledge Project announces launch of Open Preprint Systems (OPS)
2020-02-25

Popular preprint servers face closure because of money troubles (Nature News)
2020-02-13

Nature offers authors option to publish peer review
2020-02-05

First Review Commons Refereed Preprint posted on bioRxiv
2020-02-03

>100 publishers, funders, and other organizations support preprints for COVID-19 research
2020-01-31

IEEE launches TechRxiv
2020-01-29

ScienceOpen enters strategic partnership with AfricArXiv
2020-01-27

CZI share report from Preprints I/O workshop
2020-01-23

Research funded by Aligning Science Across Parkinson’s (ASAP) must be posted as a preprint at the time of journal submission
2020-01-01

PLOS trial sending editors relevant comments on submissions preprinted at bioRxiv
2019-11-21

eLife to offer open peer review on bioRxiv preprints
2019-11-07

bioRxiv releases information on the server’s practices and usage so far and provides an API
2019-11-07

In Review service by ResearchSquare now available for all BMC journals and some SpringerNature titles
2019-11-05

Reviews can be posted on bioRxiv preprints using CSHL’s Transparent Review in Preprints (TRiP)
2019-10-01

Knowledge Exchange share final report on preprints landscape analysis
2019-10-01

The Serrapilheira Institute guide to good practices encourages preprinting
2019-09-30

29 more Wiley journals to offer transparent peer review
2019-09-20

PeerJ Preprints to stop accepting preprints on 30 September 2019
2019-09-03

ArXiv introduces a Code of Conduct and invites feedback
2019-08-29

Open Access India and the Center for Open Science launch IndiaRxiv, India’s first preprint service
2019-08-14

PLOS/ORCID integration provides credit for peer review
2019-06-26

Cell Systems offers authors option to publish peer review
2019-06-26

MedRxiv launches with 16 clinical science preprints
2019-06-26

MedRxiv launch date fixed for June 25
2019-06-06

JCB enables authors to publish peer review
2019-06-04

Wellcome Trust updates OA policy including preprint requirements to be effective from January 2021 (from 2020)
2019-05-31

All 7 PLOS journals enable the publication of peer review
2019-05-22

Springer Nature unifies preprint policies on licensing, citation, and media coverage
2019-05-15

Preprints can now be added to ORCID records
2019-05-03

Hilda Bastian rounds up studies of peer review
2019-05-01

PLOS has posted 2,500 preprints to bioRxiv through author opt-in upon submission in the first year of the PLOS-bioRxiv preprint-posting partnership
2019-05-01

New preprint compares growth and adoption across the nine most active OSF preprint platforms
2019-05-01

500 preprints posted on EarthArXiv since its launch in October 2017
2019-05-01

55% of reviewers opt in to signing their reviews in Nature Research trial
2019-04-18

In Review expands to cover 8 more BMC journals including Bioinformatics, Developmental Biology, Ecology, Genomics, Infectious Diseases, Microbiology and Neuroscience
2019-04-07

AMRC Open Research officially launches as an open peer review platform for research funded by AMRC member charities
2019-02-27

Beilstein Journals to launch preprint server for organic chemistry and nanotechnology in Spring 2019
2019-02-19

HHMI leaders publish a proposal for the future of scientific publishing
2019-02-14

bioRxiv announces rollout of full-text HTML for all preprints
2019-02-03

10 more Wiley journals offer published peer review after 83% of Clinical Genetics authors opt-in
2019-01-24

Results of a 5-journal trial to publish peer review: no compromise to “willingness to review, recommendations, or turn-around times”
2019-01-18

ICMJE updates preprint recommendations (pdf)
2018-12-31

Genome Biology to publish reviewer reports for all submissions from January following trial that showed no negative impact on peer review
2018-12-05

Wellcome requires preprints for research with significant public health benefits (eg during disease outbreaks) effective 2020
2018-11-05

Journals & infrastructure providers propose metadata schema for published peer reviews
2018-10-17

200 MDPI journals enable the publication of peer reviews
2018-10-12

PKP and SciELO announce development of open source Preprint Server system
2018-09-21

Wiley introduces workflow to publish peer review history via Publons
2018-09-13

The Journal of the American Chemical Society (JACS) announces it will accept preprints
2018-08-20

PLOS links to preprint versions of published articles
2018-07-20

Preprints are now being indexed at Europe PMC
2018-07-11

The Royal Society will publish peer review reports for Royal Society Open Science and Proceedings B
2018-07-05

African scientists launch their own preprint repository
2018-06-25

The Lancet launches a preprint server
2018-06-23

Crossref reports that preprints are growing at 10x the rate of articles
2018-05-31

NIH encourages preprints to be cited in grant applications and reports
2017-03-17

Wellcome accepts preprints in grant applications
2017-01-10

The MRC supports preprints
2017-01-03

The HFSP allows preprints to be used in proposals
2016-12-12

The EMBO Journal announces “extended scooping protection” for preprints
2016-12-01

The NIH 4D Nucleome project requires preprinting
2016-11-15

Crossref begins indexing preprints
2016-11-02

Moore Foundation requests grantee feedback on preprint policy
2016-06-07

Simons Foundation supports preprints in grants
2016-05-21

Marty Chalfie sends letter to the worm community
2016-03-14

NY Times Op-Ed calls for wider use of preprints
2015-11-11

Relative Citation Ratio (RCR) announced
2015-11-06

“Accelerating Publication in Biology” published in PNAS
2015-10-31