Slides of the talk delivered on 26th Jun 2019 at ICAR-IIHR, Bengaluru as part of the seminar series of the Plant Protection Sciences Club, ICAR-IIHR, Bengaluru

1. All about Preprints
@SridharGutam

2. https://www.ibiology.org/biomedical-workforce/preprints/

3. https://www.ibiology.org/biomedical-workforce/preprints/

4. Preprints
•“a preprint is a version of a
scholarly or scientific
paper that precedes formal
peer review and publication in
a peer-reviewed scholarly
or scientific journal.”
– Wikipedia contributors (2019)

5. arXiv: e-prints repository
• Started in August 1991 by Paul Ginsparg
• Open access to 1,556,986 e-prints
• Physics, mathematics, computer science,
quantitative biology, quantitative finance,
statistics, electrical engineering & systems
science, and economics.
• Owned and operated by Cornell University

6. Open Access
• “free availability on the public internet,
permitting any users to read, download,
copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the
full texts of these articles, crawl them for
indexing, pass them as data to software, or
use them for any other lawful purpose,
without financial, legal, or technical barriers
other than those inseparable from gaining
access to the internet itself.”
- Budapest Open Access Initiative 2002

7. Source: http://www.prepubmed.org/monthly_stats/

8. Benefits
• Date & Time stamped
• Precedence of your work
• Showcase for grants
• Immediately available
• Rapid feed back
• Broader audience & Collaborations
• Pay walled journals can be read
• Citations
• Links to published articles

9. Concerns!!??
• Ingelfinger rule 1969
• “The New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM) would not
publish findings that had been published elsewhere, in
other media or in other journals.”
-Wikipedia contributors (2019)
• Authors of Lancet has the option to post their papers on SSRN,
in the ‘Preprints with The Lancet’.
(https://www.thelancet.com/preprints)
• “Authors submitting to PLOS* can seamlessly post their
manuscript to bioRxiv.” (https://www.plos.org/preprints)

10. Journal’s preprint policies
• List of academic journals by preprint policy
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_academic_journals_by
_preprint_policy
• 33 publishers | 69 journals
• SHERPA/RoMEO http://sherpa.ac.uk/romeo/index.php
RoMEO colour Archiving policy Publishers %
Green Can archive pre-print and post-print 1059 41
Blue Can archive post-print (ie final draft post-refereeing) 845 33
Yellow Can archive pre-print (ie pre-refereeing) 179 7
White Archiving not formally supported 478 19
Source: SHERPA/RoMEO

11. Nature’s preprints policy

12. IndiaRxiv – Preprints for India

15. COS/OSF Preprints
https://osf.io/preprints/

16. Funder’s Policies
https://asapbio.org/funder-policies

17. INSA Policy Statement 2018
https://www.insa.nic.in/writereaddata/UpLoadedFiles/PINSA/PINSA_2018_Art42.pdf

18. ASAPbio
https://asapbio.org/licensing-faq

20. zenodo.org

21. Thank you
2,231,690 searchable as of June 26, 2019 | osf.io/preprints