Are Preprints Becoming the New Norm in Biology? Not So Fast - The Chronicle of Higher Education

" ... So when a conversation among biologists about 'preprints,' or papers uploaded to open-access websites before undergoing peer review, picked up steam last month, Mr. Faulkes was all ears. With the help of the hashtag #ASAPbio, Mr. Faulkes followed the action at the two-day Accelerating Science and Publication in Biology meeting, which took place just outside Washington, D.C. The attendees, including scientists, university administrators, and funding-agency officials, discussed how increased use of preprints in their discipline, something that has been commonplace for decades in physics, could speed up scientific discovery and allow for broader feedback than the traditional peer-review process. Mr. Faulkes, who often tweets and blogs about his work, jumped on board, publishing a paper on a biology preprint server, bioRxiv, which is maintained by Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory. He waited anxiously for feedback and reaction ..."