Preprints – the way forward for rapid and open knowledge sharing | SciELO in Perspective

lterrat's bookmarks 2017-02-03

Summary:

"On January 19, 2017, something remarkable happened. A preprint with the title 'A Data Citation Roadmap for Scientific Publishers1' was posted on bioRχiv, the preprint server of Cold Spring Harbor. Posting of preprints on bioRχiv happens all the time, so that is not the remarkable thing. What is remarkable is the fact that the lead (and corresponding) author has ‘Elsevier’ as her affiliation. I see this as a hopeful sign. As I argued before, preprints may well turn out to be a solution to the fact that much of the scientific literature is not shared as openly, as widely, and as quickly as possible, because it is being ‘held hostage’ by most researchers’ need to obtain a form of formal recognition by having their work published in a peer-reviewed journal for the purpose of their career prospects.

The solution being that communicating and sharing research results on the one hand and formal publication in a peer-reviewed journal on the other hand, could be separate and parallel processes."

Link:

http://blog.scielo.org/en/2017/02/01/preprints-the-way-forward-for-rapid-and-open-knowledge-sharing/

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Date tagged:

02/03/2017, 00:14

Date published:

02/02/2017, 19:14