Building links with bioRxiv: expanding the choice for researchers - F1000 BlogsF1000 Blogs

"We’re excited to announce that authors of preprints posted on bioRxiv can now submit their work directly to F1000Research using bioRxiv’s journal submission service, B2J. The B2J submission process provides automated connectivity between bioRxiv and publication outlets, now including F1000Research, offering full invited peer review. Once we receive a preprint submission from B2J, we will perform our standard editorial checks. Once checked, we will ascertain which author will take responsibility for liaison during the post-publication peer-review process. We then send the nominated author a link to the submission form, pre-populated with the files and metadata received via B2J, so that they can complete any further details required. One of the obvious questions we have been asked is why are we doing this, when the F1000Research publishing model is, in its early stages, much like a preprint model?  Our first priority as a service provider is to offer choice and flexibility to authors – and we know that many researchers now value the benefits that posting a version of an article on a preprint server can bring. This can provide early, open sight of findings for informal comment and consideration by the scientific community at large while the authors decide what publication venue to submit their article to undergo invited peer review. We are pleased to see the growth in the use of preprint servers by researchers across disciplines, not least because it confirms to us the appetite among researchers to embrace new ways of publishing and the drive to accelerate access to and potential use, re-use and impact of research...."