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The Preprint: Integrating the Form into the Scholarly Ecosystem
Wednesday, February 14, 11:00am - 5:00pm (Eastern)
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Confirmed speakers (in order of appearance):
· Gregg Gordon, SSRN
· Mark Seeley, SciPubLaw
· Neil Thakur, NIH
· Matthew Spitzer, Center for Open Science
· Darla Henderson, American Chemical Society (ACS)
· John Inglis, Cold Spring Harbor Press
· Oya Rieger, Cornell University
· Jamie Wittenberg, Indiana University Bloomington
Here’s a sampling of what some of those speakers will address:
Professional ethics requirements for publishing on preprint servers
As preprint servers evolve from highly specialized niches for researcher groups to research resources for larger audiences and communities, users will become increasingly concerned about the validity and integrity of the materials posted on such sites. To date preprint servers have lagged behind journals in terms of formal and professional publishing ethics policies and processes, perhaps relying overmuch on the sense of community that helped to create and sustain the site in the first place. Preprint servers should consider as part of their evolution the incorporation of feedback and accountability mechanisms, generally in ways that parallel the ethics processes and policies that have developed for journals.
Interim Research Products at NIH
Interim research products are complete research products that are made public before they are final. They are created in order to increase the impact and rigor of a research study. They might be in draft form, like a preprint, or they may be a step in an ongoing study made public, like a preregistered study protocol. This presentation will describe NIH’s current interim research product policy, including standards for citing interim research products in NIH applications and reports, and guidance for selecting repositories. It will also provide results from the 2016 request for information that helped drive this policy.
Preprints in Biology and Medicine
The public release of research papers before peer review (“preprint posting”) has become more frequent in the biological sciences in the past 5 years and the value of the practice for clinically related research is beginning to be discussed. bioRxiv is Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory’s preprint server for the biological sciences, and the soon-to-be-launched medRxiv will be its equivalent in the health sciences. This presentation will describe the development and current status of these initiatives and their evolving roles in the ecosystem of scholarly communication.
arXiv: Principles, Sustainability, and Future
arXiv.org is acknowledged as one of the most successful OA preprint repositories. It has transformed scientific communication in multiple fields of physics and plays an increasingly prominent role in mathematics, computer science, quantitative biology, quantitative finance, and statistics. The presentation will describe the role of arXiv, its organizational and governance model, and the current challenges and opportunities involved in its operation. Also, it will discuss the main goals of the next-gen arXiv (arXiv-NG) initiative, which aims to strengthen the 26-year old service's technical infrastructure and business model. arXiv, as a socio-technical system, consists of technical infrastructures, scholarly workflows, curatorial policies, and the social arrangements and organizations that provide it with a structural framework. Therefore, the arXiv-NG initiative involves a range of issues extending from architectural choices to sustainability requirements, and from policy issues to governance matters.
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