Preprints & Scholarly Infrastructure
- 1. Preprints & scholarly infrastructure Webinar, 30 Jan 2017 Rachael Lammey Member & Community Outreach @CrossrefOrg
- 3. Today’s agenda! • Introduction • Jessica Polka, ASAPbio • Martyn Rittman, Preprints, operated by MDPI • Richard Sever, bioRxiv • Q&A
- 5. Preprints in! • Crossref membership • Content registration with custom metadata • Notification of links between preprints and publications • ORCiD Auto-update • Identification of funders
- 6. Preprints out! • As with all supported content types, we make the metadata available for machine and human access, across multiple interfaces (e.g. REST API, OAI-PMH, Crossref Metadata Search). • API: • http://api.crossref.org/types/posted-content/works • http://api.crossref.org/works/10.20944/ preprints201608.0191.v1/transform/application/ vnd.crossref.unixsd+xml http://blog.crossref.org/category/preprints
- 7. A preprint is a manuscript posted online before journal-organized peer review
- 8. Preprints & journals are compa<ble Berg et al Science 2016
- 9. arXiv: 100,000 manuscripts per year Preprint servers have existed for 25 years In Biology
- 11. • Immediately openly accessible • Public disclosure of recent, “invisible” work for PhD thesis, fellowship, jobs • Get more feedback on your work • Control when work is made public (Lmestamp, DOI) • Advance the pace of science Major benefits of preprints
- 12. Pos<ng preprints is a good experience 392 responses. Results at asapbio.org/survey
- 13. Funders including preprints in grants asapbio.org/funder-policies Jan 10, 2017 Jan 3, 2017 Dec 12, 2016 Sept 29,2016 NIH RFI Dec 2016 Long-term postdoc fellowships 2016
- 16. Journals innova<ng with preprints October 4, 2016 Twicer: #ASAPbio @jessicapolka 16
- 17. Twicer: #ASAPbio @jessicapolka 17 Linking preprints to journals “Now, to document and help readers trace the complete publication record, authors are invited to voluntarily provide a footnote for their BJ article referencing their preprint in bioRxiv or arXiv, including the DOI number and the date the initial manuscript was deposited.”
- 18. AcceleraLng Science and PublicaLon in biology • Convening stakeholders! • Sharing information: FAQ & tracking policies! • Raising awareness! • Proposing additional preprint infrastructure! ASAPbio.org Twicer: #ASAPbio
- 20. Background Preprints.org is run by MDPI, an open access publisher We want to support rapid dissemination of knowledge Preprints is run on a not-for-profit basis 20
- 21. What is a preprint? A preprint is any article that hasn’t yet been peer-reviewed and published in an academic journal. In most cases, you can think of it as a draft or working paper. A preprint can be updated and improved at any time. 21 “ ”
- 22. • Over 900 Preprints online • 12 subject categories • 95 advisory board members 22
- 23. • DOI assigned for every preprint. • Sign up for update alerts. • Comment on and rate every article. • Bookmark with CiteULike, BibSonomy, Mendeley, etc. • See related articles. • Altmetrics. 23
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- 25. How does it work? • Submission by authors via Preprints.org or MDPI submission system. • Internal check by Preprints editors. • Refer borderline cases to the advisory board. • Articles online within 24 hours. 25
- 26. How does it work? • Basic criteria that we check: • Title, abstract, keywords present • Document structure • Author affiliations and background • Recent citations • Controversial topics/junk papers • Use of human/animal/plant subjects 26
- 27. Working with Crossref • Straightforward implementation: same process as for journals. • Easy to cite and link to published versions. • Grace period for removal of preprints before DOI registration. • New DOI for each preprint version. 27
- 28. Outlook • Can preprints become standard in more disciplines? • Get review/peer support into the publication process at an earlier stage. • Speed up the reporting of research. • Support grant/job applications, especially for ECRs. 28
- 30. Richard Sever, PhD Assistant Director, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press Twitter: @cshperspectives
- 31. Research at Cold Spring Harbor Lab • 600 scientific staff • 50 research groups • Molecular biology and genetics • Cancer • Neuroscience • Plant biology • Genomics and bioinformatics • Quantitative biology • Ranked #1 worldwide in molecular biology & genetics
- 32. Science communication at Cold Spring Harbor Conferences • Meetings • The Banbury Center • Cold Spring Harbor Asia, Suzhou, China Teaching • Watson School of Biological Sciences • Residential lab and lecture courses • DNA Learning Center Books & Journals • Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press
- 33. 2013: CSHL launched the preprint server for biology • Non-profit service of CSHL • Submission + access free • Biological/medical sciences • Complements arXiv
- 34. Preprint (n): an unpublished manuscript yet to be certified by peer review
- 35. Benefits • Rapid transmission of results • Pre-publication feedback/discussion • Visibility, especially for early-career scientists • Immediate availability to grant/hiring committees
- 36. Accelerating communication bioRxiv Data courtesy of Stephen Royle Received-published Received-accepted Accepted-published
- 37. bioRxiv features • Posted manuscript date-stamped + given a DOI (citable) • Indexed in Google Scholar & next-generation literature-discovery tools • Choice of article type (New, Confirmatory, or Contradictory Results) • Revised version can be posted at any time • Choice of license (CC BY, CC BY-NC, CC BY-ND, CC BY-NC-ND, all rights reserved) • Article metrics • Commenting • Links to published versions
- 43. Progress • ~8000 submissions (~90% approved) • ~30% revised (many more than once) • ~30,000 authors • >60% of papers subsequently published • >400 journals have published papers preprinted on bioRxiv
- 44. Progress • Behavior change: more biologists posting/reading preprints • Policy change: more journals allowing preprint posting • Rule change: funding bodies allow citing of preprints in grants
- 45. Posts
- 47. arXiv by subject
- 48. Impact • Citations • Comments • Blogs • Email • Social media ? (11%) (>>100K)
- 49. Formal publication Journal integration Submission Peer review Yur journal here B2JJ2B Preprint posted BioPhysical J Development eLife EMBO J EMBO Mol Med EMBO reports G3 Genetics Genome Res J Cell Biol J Gen Physiol Mol Biol Cell Mol Sys Biol Plant J PLOS PNAS & >40 more Editorial prospecting
- 52. bioRxiv - an essential hub Journals Meetings Blogs Confirmatory results Contradictory results Discussion Reproducibility Certification Discovery Crossref GoogleMeta