Technical and social issues influencing the adoption of preprints in the life sciences
ASAPbio, San Francisco, CA, United States of America
- Published
- Accepted
- Subject Areas
- Science and Medical Education, Science Policy
- Keywords
- preprints, publishing
- Copyright
- © 2019 Penfold et al.
- Licence
- This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, reproduction and adaptation in any medium and for any purpose provided that it is properly attributed. For attribution, the original author(s), title, publication source (PeerJ Preprints) and either DOI or URL of the article must be cited.
- Cite this article
- 2019. Technical and social issues influencing the adoption of preprints in the life sciences. PeerJ Preprints 7:e27954v1 https://doi.org/10.7287/peerj.preprints.27954v1
Abstract
Preprints are gaining visibility in many fields. Thanks to the explosion of bioRxiv, an online server for preprints in biology, versions of manuscripts prior to the completion of journal-organized peer review are poised to become a standard component of the publishing experience in the life sciences. Here we provide an overview of current challenges facing preprints, both technical and social, and a vision for their future development, from unbundling the functions of publication to exploring different communication formats.
Author Comment
This is a preprint version of an invited opinion article that has been submitted to PLOS Genetics.
