Eight reasons early posting models are taking off in 2018 | Christine Ferguson | Research Consulting

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Summary:

"Momentum continues to grow for early posting initiatives such as preprints and ‘Open Research’ platforms. In a previous post, I provided a recap of early posting models that have attracted buy-in from key stakeholders in the life sciences in recent years. Below, I recount eight reasons why these platforms are likely to be used and built upon still further by the life sciences community in 2018.

1.Researchers are using preprints servers and ‘Open Research’ platforms: it is encouraging to see that preprint postings are increasing – bioRxiv currently hosts over 21,000 manuscripts compared to the 11,000 in May 2017 and is seeing a rising monthly rate of submission – 1,200 submissions in January 2018, their largest figure to date. To make life easier, bioRxiv offers authors the opportunity to submit their manuscript directly to a journal (the ‘B2J’ submission route): currently 120 journals from 31 publishers are available. Analyses and author surveys conducted by F1000 and Wellcome on their ‘Open Research’ platforms are positive and found that researchers appreciate the speed of publication and the variety of research outputs that can be published.

2.The scale of CC-BY preprint postings is about to rocket: in Feb 2018, PLOS announced a partnership with bioRxiv that will enable authors to automatically post a preprint of their of their PLOS submissions following initial QC, on bioRxiv – the ‘J2B’ submission route. PLOS publishes one of the largest annual volumes of open access content under the CC-BY license that permits re-use by all, provided attribution is given. This partnership will not only dramatically increase the numbers of preprints being posted but will drive the posting of CC-BY preprints available for global discovery, discussion and text and data mining.

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These early posting models are promoting open peer review, enabling truly global participation and rapid dissemination of scientific findings. Given the commitments we have seen from funding bodies, publishers, those generating overlay platforms, early career selectors and reviewers, it will be interesting to see whether preprints or Open Research models attract the critical mass of submissions from life science researchers necessary for real change in scholarly communication.

I am hopeful that the advent of meta-research – data driven evaluation of how science is performed and communicated – will encourage transparent evaluation of the performance of these initiatives and provide an evidence base for ongoing traction within the life sciences."

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Date tagged:

03/07/2018, 11:52

Date published:

03/07/2018, 06:53