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2014 CrossRef Annual Meeting Peer Review Panel: bioRxiv: the preprint server for biology
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory specializes in molecular biology and genetics, housing 600 staff across 50 research groups. In 2013, it launched a preprint server that allows scientists to share research quickly, avoiding lengthy peer review delays, with around 1000 submissions in its first year. This platform promotes visibility for early-career scientists and has significantly influenced publication practices in the biological sciences.
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- 1. Richard Sever, PhD Assistant Director, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press Twitter: @cshperspectives
- 2. Cold Spring HarborLaboratory, NY
- 3. Research at ColdSpring Harbor • 600 scientific staff • 50 research groups • Molecular biology and genetics • Cancer • Neuroscience • Plant biology • Genomics and bioinformatics • Quantitative biology • Ranked #1 in the world in molecular biology & genetics
- 4. Science education andcommunication 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 Publishing • Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press
- 5. Books Research journals Review journals
- 6. 2013: CSHL launcheda preprint server for biology
- 7. What scientists weresaying “It’s ridiculous I have to wait months to read a paper while it goes through peer review…let me decide for myself whether it’s any good” “Think how much time is wasted!” “I am writing a grant but the paper is not going to be published by the time I submit. The solution is a pre-print server that can be referenced”
- 8. Biology appearing onthe physics arXiv
- 9. • A not-for-profitservice of CSH Laboratory • Makes papers available before consideration by a journal • Submission + access free • Posting almost immediate, with screening but no peer review • Revised versions can be posted any time
- 10. Features • Postedmanuscript date-stamped + given a DOI (citable) • Indexed in Google Scholar • Choice of article type (New, Confirmatory, or Contradictory Results) • 25 subject categories • 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
- 16. Progress in ayear • ~1000 submissions (>90% approved) • ~30% revised (many more than once) • Papers subsequently published in >100 journals Nature, Science, PNAS, eLife, Nature Genetics, Nature Neuroscience, Nature Communications, Genome Research, Genetics, Evolution, Biophysical Journal, PLoS One, PloS Genetics, Biology Open, Bioinformatics, American, Journal of Human Genetics, Journal of Neuroscience, BMC Genomics, BMC Biology, G3, Frontiers in Genetics, Frontiers in Neuroscience, Genome Biology, Interface, Molecular Systems Biology, Nucleic Acids Research, PeerJ, PLoS Computational Biology, Oncogene, Molecular Plant, Journal of Ecology, Epidemiology & Infection, Biochimie, Gigascience
- 17. Progress in ayear • Behavior change: more biologists posting/reading preprints • Policy change: more journals allowing preprint posting • Rule change: NIH biosketch can now cite preprints
- 18. • Feedback viasocial media • Feedback via commenting • Feedback via email
- 19. Making it easierfor authors: journal integration Formal publication Submission Peer review (not to scale…) Preprint posted Your journal here
- 20. Benefits • Rapidtransmission of results • Pre-publication feedback/discussion • Visibility, especially for early-career scientists • Immediate availability to grant/hiring committees
- 21.