Publication speed under ALPSP spotlight | The Bookseller

"Kiley, speaking in a panel titled Shifting Sands: What’s Affecting Your Business?, urged academics and publishers to embrace the use of preprints (versions of articles circulated ahead of publication) “as a fast way to disseminate outputs”. He added: “We need to change [academic] culture by encouraging researchers to cite preprints, and to [persuading] publishers to accept that preprints don’t constitute ‘prior publication’.” Kiley noted the speed of his institution’s new platform Wellcome Open Research, which publishes articles online in just a week. During that time it checks for “hygiene” issues, such as plagiarism. It offers researchers the ability to publish across all their research outputs (including datasets), and works on an author-led, open review system. It is one of several initiatives by Wellcome aimed at changing the dynamics of scholarly communication, another being Open Access journal eLife, to which it has just given a further five years of funding...."