We remind our readers about our policies on the use of preprints: in short, we support them. A Nature Methods author can post a preprint prior to submission without fearing a penalty. Most physics ...

Photo by Alfons Morales on Unsplash. In the last three decades the number of experiments included in academic biology publications from top tier journals has increased two to fourfold. In many cases ...

Science is about discovery. But discovery does little good unless it is shared. The way we have traditionally shared information in biomedicine — submitting articles to peer-reviewed journals — can ...

Scientific publication has followed a specific infrastructure for many years. A researcher (or research group) completes their study, conducts a write-up including the rationale behind the study, the ...

When medRxiv, a site that hosts unpublished research manuscripts -- called preprints -- in the medical sciences launched in June 2019, things got off to a slow start. “It may take off slowly,” John ...

Before the COVID-19 pandemic, Max Crispin had been a little wary of preprints. He’d worked with collaborators who submitted their joint work to preprint servers, which allow public access to papers ...

The rapid emergence in China of 2019-nCoV, a novel coronavirus, and its spread beyond its borders highlights the need for rapid scientific communication to better characterize transmissibility ...

Jonathon Alexis Coates is affiliated with preLights (a preprint highlighting service) and ASAPbio (a nonprofit promoting innovation and transparency in life sciences communication). Since the first ...

PeerJ is an Open Access publisher of PeerJ (a peer-reviewed journal) and PeerJ PrePrints (an un-peer reviewed preprint server), which offers researchers lifetime publication plans, for a single low ...

Scientific publication has followed a specific infrastructure for many years. A researcher (or research group) completes their study, conducts a write-up including the rationale behind the study, the ...