rapid growth of preprints submissions in the life sciences – as seen in the increase in preprint submissions to bioRxiv over the past four years, preprints are not yet widely adopted by biologists as a vehicle for rapid, freely accessible dissemination of scientific knowledge. And even more rare is 

Results

To address the feasibility and level of community support for preprint journal clubs (JCs), we launched a community opinion survey. Our survey acquired data on the number of scientists that are willing to or are already hosting preprint JCs, and scientists’ opinions about preprint JCs, preprint commenting, and peer review training for early-career researchers (ECRs). We launched the survey during the Mozilla Global Sprint (1st - 2nd June, 2017) and broadened our reach through social media. We closed the survey with 102 respondents, mainly from Academia (Fig. 1).