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Guest Post:  Preprints Serve the Anti-science Agenda – This Is Why We Need Peer Review

Science is built on a foundation of rigor and credibility. Preprints are adding to the crumbling of that foundation, which is already under attack by anti-science political agendas.

  • By David Green
  • Apr 17, 2025
  • 36 Comments

Green Open Access – Free for Authors But at a Cost for Readers

Pursuit of Green open access rather than Gold not only preserves the subscription system but also imposes hidden costs on readers.

  • By Lisa Janicke Hinchliffe
  • Nov 12, 2024
  • 72 Comments

Guest Post — Upholding the Integrity of Open Science

As preprints become an increasingly integral part of scholarly communication, can automated screening tools improve their reliability and preprint servers’ operational efficiency?

  • By Krishna Kumar Venkitachalam
  • Oct 23, 2024
  • 2 Comments

bioRxiv and Citations: Just Another Piece of Flawed Bibliometric Research?

Even a flawed paper can offer lessons on how (not) to report, and what (not) to claim.

  • By Phil Davis
  • Jul 1, 2024
  • 9 Comments

Preprints, Journals and Openness: Disentangling Goals and Incentives

Robert Harington discusses the value of preprints, the importance of peer review, research integrity and openness.

  • By Robert Harington
  • Apr 17, 2024
  • 5 Comments

Gates Open Access Policy Refresh Increases Compliance Burden and Eliminates Financial Support

The 2025 policy continues 2021 compliance requirements while also imposing additional mandates and eliminating financial support for open access publishing.

  • By Lisa Janicke Hinchliffe
  • Apr 15, 2024
  • 2 Comments

The Latest “Crisis” — Is the Research Literature Overrun with ChatGPT- and LLM-generated Articles?

Journal articles with ChatGPT authored text are being found. How common is this in the literature? And how, or better yet, when, is this problematic text slipping through to publication?

  • By David Crotty
  • Mar 20, 2024
  • 26 Comments

Kitchen Essentials: An Interview with Stephanie Orphan of arXiv

In today’s Kitchen Essentials interview, Roger Schonfeld speaks with Stephanie Orphan, Program Director of arXiv, the e-print repository.

  • By Roger C. Schonfeld
  • Jan 23, 2024
  • 3 Comments

Guest Post — Society Publishers Respond to Plan S “Towards Responsible Publishing” Proposal

Three global society publishers respond to cOAlition S’s recent “Towards responsible publishing, a proposal from cOAlition S”.

  • By IOP Publishing, AIP Publishing, American Physical Society
  • Jan 17, 2024
  • 3 Comments

Guest Post — A Year of Jxiv – Warming the Preprints Stone

Is there value to be found in national, or language based preprint servers? Matthew Salter discusses lessons learned from the first year of Japan’s Jxiv.

  • By Matthew Salter
  • Jun 12, 2023
  • 2 Comments

Drawing Lines to Cross Them: How Publishers are Moving Beyond Established Norms

Looking at five ‘lines’ that the publishing industry has broadly agreed upon, but that now we are finding ourselves crossing.

  • By Haseeb Irfanullah
  • Apr 20, 2023
  • 8 Comments

#ProTip for Authors: There’s More to Writing Your Manuscript Than Just the Text

Authors need to understand more about producing web documents, particularly accessibility, if they want to forgo traditional publishing.

  • By Todd A Carpenter
  • Jul 27, 2022
  • 2 Comments

Guest Post — Building Stronger Chains Together: Keeping Preprints Connected to the Scholarly Record

In the global supply chain of scholarly communications, we share a responsibility for accurate metadata that represents the publication lifecycle — from preprint to version of record, and everything in between.

  • By Michele Avissar-Whiting
  • Jun 7, 2022
  • 7 Comments

Guest Post: Preprint Feedback is Here – Let’s Make it Constructive and FAST

ASAPBio offers set of principles and guidelines for preprint feedback.

  • By Sandra Franco Iborra, Jessica Polka, Iratxe Puebla
  • Feb 28, 2022
  • 1 Comment

Revisiting — Journalism, Preprint Servers, and the Truth: Allocating Accountability

In light of the recent anniversary of the January 6th attack on the US Capitol, we revisit Rick Anderson’s post on how journalists flag unsupported claims and blatant falsehoods, and whether preprint platforms should do the same.

  • By Rick Anderson
  • Jan 12, 2022
  • 32 Comments

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