(5 Oct 2023) Preprints are now searchable on Scopus upon performing a document search, according to a announcement made by Elsevier. As of June 2023, there are 1.8M preprint records in Scopus from the following seven preprint servers in total: arXiv ChemRxiv bioRxiv medRxiv SSRN TechRxiv Research Square Find out more here.
(21 Feb 2023) How comprehensive are bibliographic databases when it comes to preprints? Ludo Waltman and Nees Jan van Eck provide six recommendations for improvement. “In this blog post, we discuss how preprints are indexed by different bibliographic databases and we present recommendations for optimizing the indexing of preprints. Our focus is on five…
(9 Feb 2023) Clarivate Plc has added the Preprint Citation Index™ to the Web of Science™ platform. Researchers can now locate and link to preprints alongside other trusted content in the database, to streamline the research process and help make meaningful connections faster. At launch, the Preprint Citation Index provides nearly two million preprints from…
(4 Feb 2022) Iratxe Puebla, Director of Strategic Initiatives & Community at ASAPbio, shares her tips to help preprint authors scrutinize invitations to submit their next paper to a journal. Think.Check.Submit has the article here.
(27 Oct 2021) The Dutch consortium of university libraries and the National library of the Netherlands (UKB) together with the Association of Universities in the Netherlands (VSNU) and the Dutch Research Council (NWO), has published a practical guide on preprints. Preprints are [academic] manuscripts that have not been peer-reviewed or published in a traditional publishing…
(22 Sep 2021) Dave Davis looked at the role of peer review in scholarly and scientific publishing, and the critically important “quality assurance”-style value it brings to the process. In this following article, he is focusing on the “before”, “in process” and “final” versions of articles, which is to say, preprints, postprints, and the “versions…
(4 Aug 2021) ASAPbio and COAR are inviting institutional and other generalist repositories to fill in this survey about preprint sharing in repositories. The aggregate results of the survey will be made publicly available via our websites. The survey will only take about 5 minutes, and is open until September 10, 2021. The aim…
(14 Aug 2019) Research outputs find a home at IndiaRxiv, India’s first Preprints Service Open Access India partners with the Center for Open Science to launch IndiaRxiv on the eve of India’s 73rd Independence Day as the country joins the global march for open science. Open Access India and the Center for Open Science have collaborated…
(29 Jul 2019) Cambridge University Press is to expand their provision of open research services with the launch of its own early and open content platform Cambridge Open Engage. Built in-house, Cambridge Open Engage will use the state-of-the-art technology behind Cambridge Core, the online home for the Press’s books and journals, to publish early and open research…
(9 Jul 2019) A new analysis suggests that journal articles posted as preprints before their formal publication in a peer-reviewed journal attract more citations and online mentions than those without preprint versions. A team led by Nicholas Fraser, a bibliometrics researcher at the Leibniz Information Centre for Economics in Germany, retrieved all 18,841 papers posted on the biology repository bioRxiv between November…