Preprints & Incremental Sharing

Preprinting is on the rise. This solution will increase usage of preprints for various forms of early sharing, reporting on incremental findings as snapshots of research, and accelerating time to publication by posting preprints of journal article submissions. The solution includes advocacy, analysis of preprinting activities, promoting early preprinting, and connecting reviews and assessments of preprints to make them more visible and discoverable. Facilitating credit for all preprint-related work will help to incentivize researchers.

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Goals

Work with funders and organizations supporting preprinting to build a knowledge and evidence base on levels of preprinting in different disciplines, motivations and incentives for preprinting, and identify methods of increasing preprints. Investigate costs, levels of expertise and roles of existing research facilitators, and evaluations of team success as defined by outputs and researcher opinions.

Community Projects

ASAPbio Preprints in Progress

In progress

| Updated: 4 Nov 2022

Solution: Preprints & Incremental Sharing

Encouraging the use of preprints for research outputs beyond the scope of a traditional article and appearing well in advance of any associated eventual journal publication; drawing attention to non-traditional formats such as early stage results, null findings and replications of published works.

Organization:

ASAPbio
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Keywords:
Early Sharing, Peer Review, Preprints, Publishing

COAR Notify

Launched

| Updated: 23 May 2024

Solution: Preprints & Incremental Sharing

The COAR Notify Initiative is developing and accelerating community adoption of a standard, interoperable, and decentralised approach (using Linked Data Notifications) to link research outputs hosted in the distributed network of repositories with resources from external services, such as overlay-journals and open peer review services.

Organization:

Confederation of Open Access Repositories

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Keywords:
Collaboration, Peer Review, Preprints, Technology

eLife’s New Publishing Model

Launched

| Updated: 21 Nov 2022

Solution: Preprints & Incremental Sharing

Starting in 2023, eLife will no longer make accept/reject decisions but will publish all peer-reviewed papers on its website as Reviewed Preprints, including an eLife assessment and public reviews. Authors can respond and either revise/resubmit or declare it as the final Version of Record.

Organization:

eLife Sciences Publication
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Keywords:
Early Sharing, Peer Review, Policy, Publishing

ResearchEquals: Making All Research Work Visible

Launched

| Updated: 12 Sep 2023

Solution: Preprints & Incremental Sharing

ResearchEquals is an open access publishing platform sharing the research process step by step, diversifying primary outputs to include text, data, code, audio, and more. By doing so, all research work can be made public, with a DOI, to be able to get it recognized and rewarded.

Organization:

Liberate Science GmbH

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Keywords:
Communication, Early Sharing, Preprints, Publishing, Training