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

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

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

#ASAPbio

ASAPbio @ASAPbio_·

The proportion of #preprints (across various servers relevant to biology) is currently at ~2.4% the number of biomedical publications on PubMed #asapbio

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Alexis Verger @Alexis_Verger·

Transpose @TRANSPOSEsci - a new database of almost 3000 journal policies for peer review and preprints https://t.co/qQXTkBy09H #ASAPbio #preprints

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The Lucks Lab @LucksLab·

More reason to use BioRxiv! #asapbio

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Peter Sobolewski @psobolewskiPhD·

Need more convincing to #preprint?
See "The effect of bioRxiv preprints on citations and altmetrics."
https://t.co/tJwcXWPdPc
Interestingly, #OA status was a sig predictor of both citations and altmetrics—but all articles that have #preprints are in a sense #OA... #ASAPBio

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Prachee Avasthi @PracheeAC·

What a neat way to spread the word about preprints! Check out this event Bay Area friends! #ASAPbio

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Philippos Papathanos @phiC32·

Very cool stuff sis. And welcome to the #asapbio revolution.

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