Encouraging palaeontologists to stop hiding the bones

"A preprint server for palaeontologists is one of six specialized archives released on an open-source preprint platform on 18 August 2017. Launched to promote open science to traditionally reluctant researchers, the preprints are among a growing number of niche repositories.

'I hope PaleorXiv will be the spark needed to get palaeontologists to see the value in preprints,' says palaeontologist Jon Tennant, a recent PhD graduate of Imperial College London who set up the archive to share data on the fossilized remains of plants and animals.

PaleorXiv was built using a shared infrastructure for operating preprints developed by the not-for-profit Center for Open Science in 2016. The open-source platform currently hosts 14 servers and more than 3,500 articles, including SocArXiv (social sciences), PsyArXiv (psychology) and EngrXiv (engineering), as well as the six latest releases: INA-Rxiv (Indonesia), LISSA (library and information science), MindRxiv (mind and contemplative practices), NutriXiv (nutritional sciences), SportRxiv (sport and exercise), and PaleorXiv."