Preprint servers making waves in chemistry community | News | Chemistry World

"Chemical science publishing is in the midst of a seismic shift, something that was made clear at the 254th American Chemical Society National Meeting and Exposition in Washington DC during a panel discussion about the new chemistry preprint server ChemRxiv. Announced a year ago by the American Chemical Society (ACS) ChemRxiv recently went live in a beta version on 14 August and gives chemists a place to deposit their papers prior to peer review and publication in a journal. So far a total of six preprints have been posted to ChemRxiv.

Darla Henderson, the assistant director of open access at the ACS, emphasised at a panel discussion that the society was taking the lead in organising the chemistry preprint server, but with significant ‘strategic input’ from the Royal Society of Chemistry, the German Chemical Society and others. ‘We opened this to the community, and the community is going to help set the standards,’ she said. The next steps to move from beta to the final launch include establishing a scientific advisory board for ChemRxiv and finalising its governance structure."