Web Native Preprints to Foster Open Science (draft) | Authorea

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"This is an open draft. Comments are welcome (select text to comment and hit comment bubble on right side of article).

 
Today's research is truly awesome. Researchers can now analyze and perform experiments that would have been thought impossible only a few decades ago. From the deep sequencing of nearly any animal genome with ease (DePristo 2011) to the discovery of the Higgs Boson (Collaboration 2012), we are in a period of great innovation and understanding.  And yet, how we communicate and share our ideas (i.e. publishing) has not changed very much in nearly 350 years.  In short, scientists are doing 21st-century research, writing on 20th-century tools, and packaging it in 17th-century formats.
 
 
The fact that research communication hasn't changed in hundreds of years may signal that it works, right? Well in some regards--yes, the work is persistent and we have copies of some of the world's most important ideas (yay librarians!). Yet, in many other regards research communication is failing us: data sharing is rare (Alsheikh-Ali 2011), the majority of work is hard to access (it's pay-walled) (Björk 2010), publishing takes months to years to complete (Himmelstein 2016), and classical peer review does not detect major errors (Smith 2010). As a consequence, we're now seeing major problems with the reproducibility of findings in disciplines like cancer research and psychology (Begley 2012, The challenges of rep..., Estimating the reprod...).
 
 
To understand how we got to where we are today in terms of research publishing, it is useful to look at the history of research publishing, how and why it got started, and the changes along the way. Here I outline a very brief history of research publishing, with particular emphasis on preprints, in hopes of providing a stage to discuss what publishing might look like in the near future."

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02/23/2017, 23:03

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02/23/2017, 18:03