Dueling preprint servers coming for the geosciences | Science | AAAS

"Are climate scientists ready to air preliminary findings—mistakes and all—before their papers are reviewed?

That question will soon be put to the test. The American Geophysical Union (AGU) in Washington, D.C., the giant of earth and planetary science publishing, announced plans yesterday to launch a preprint server that—much like arXiv.org and its descendants, bioRxiv and ChemRxiv—would host studies prior to peer review. The site, called the Earth and Space Science Open Archive (ESSOAr), could open as soon as the AGU's fall meeting in December."