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One (more) small step for preprints, one giant leap for rapid and responsible sharing of medical research at PLOS

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Date: 2022-01-06 17:17:36+00:00

New opportunities to preprint with PLOS and medRxiv

We’re delighted to announce that PLOS and Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL) are expanding our longstanding partnership to offer authors more options for sharing their research in preprint form. Beginning this month, three PLOS journals, PLOS Medicine, PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases, and PLOS ONE, will offer authors the option to have their manuscript forwarded to the medicine-focused preprint server medRxiv for posting as a preprint.

Why choose preprints?

A preprint is a version of a scientific manuscript posted on a public server prior to or in parallel with formal journal peer review. As soon as it’s posted, each preprint becomes a permanent part of the scientific record, citable with its own unique DOI. At PLOS, we see preprints as integral to our overarching mission to accelerate progress in science and medicine.

Preprints give researchers more control over their scientific communications, so they can share the outcomes of their research when they are ready. Early, transparent research communication surfaces results sooner, increasing efficiency across the entire scientific system. Publicly posted preprints open opportunities for collaboration and feedback, accelerating peer review, democratizing who can participate in peer review, and offering insight into the peer review process which in turn increases trust in research. And for individual researchers, preprints can be a powerful tool for establishing priority, increasing readership, and enhancing grant, job and tenure applications.

Responsible preprint posting with medRxiv

Responsible preprint posting is essential, especially in fields that impact public health and welfare. medRxiv has worked closely with the editors of leading medical journals to develop a rigorous preprint screening process. Technical checks screen for non-scientific content, inappropriate language, plagiarism, and potentially identifying patient details, while volunteer researchers with related expertise assess each preprint to confirm that posting will not pose a risk to patients or public health. About 70% of submitted preprints pass this screening process and go on to be posted. A prominent notice appears on each preprint alerting readers to the peer review status of the post, and directing them to the final published article once it becomes available.

Partnering to make preprint posting (even) easier

At PLOS, we see preprints as an opportunity to improve scholarly communication, rather than a threat. As an organization, we have prioritized preprints and sought ways to make posting easy and convenient for our authors. In recent years, that has included accepting direct transfers from bioRxiv and medRxiv for publication consideration at relevant PLOS journals, and offering authors the option to have preprints posted to bioRxiv on their behalf right from the PLOS manuscript submission system.

Fourteen percent of all PLOS papers published in 2020 have an associated preprint—more than double the rate across scientific articles overall. PLOS author adoption is driven primarily by authors of life science studies who have used our integration with bioRxiv since 2018. But PLOS receives an even greater volume of submissions in public health and medicine. Adding medRxiv alongside our existing bioRxiv integration will extend the ease of facilitated posting to more of the researchers and research communities we serve.

Journal Direct transfer from bioRxiv Facilitated posting to bioRxiv Direct transfer from medRxiv NEW! Facilitated posting to medRxiv PLOS Biology x x PLOS Medicine x x x PLOS Computational Biology x x PLOS Genetics x x PLOS Pathogens x x PLOS NTDs x x x x PLOS Climate x x PLOS Water x x PLOS Global Public Health x PLOS Sustainability and Transformation x x PLOS Digital Health x PLOS ONE x x x x

Looking ahead

PLOS is exploring partnering with more community-supported preprint servers to better serve researchers in disciplines across the entire breadth of our publication portfolio, and support our goal to increase adoption of open science practices.

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