Conveners
Session 7: Preprints / archiving / dissemination of early-stage output
- Martyn Rittman (MDPI)
The fight to promote the freedom of knowledge has entered a new phase. Plan S has been announced in Europe and AmeliCA in Latin America. So now what happens with Indonesia? Let me give you some figures: according to DOAJ database, in March 2017, there were 500 Indonesian OA journals (ranked 5th globally), 84% of them using the Indonesian language covering over 51,000 articles (ranked 7th). In...
As open access scientific manuscripts, preprints represent an invaluable wealth of data and knowledge available when community feedback is most useful. However, despite the rapid growth in preprint adoption in the life sciences, open commenting around them remains low. To address this, PREreview launched in 2017 to encourage the discussion of preprints at journal clubs and share preprint...
Preprints have long been a mainstay in the physical sciences, however over the last few years their prominence in the biomedical community has grown exponentially. Preprints bring many benefits to the scholarly community; rapid dissemination of academic work, immediate public access, establishing priority, receiving feedback, and facilitating new collaborations to name a few. Arguably, the...
CORE offers seamless, unrestricted access to millions of research papers. CORE hosts the world’s largest collection of open access full texts, which are used by researchers, libraries, software developers, funders and many more. CORE's aggregated content comes from thousands of institutional and subject repositories as well as journals and covers all research disciplines. In January 2019, CORE...
