What's in this website
PREreview is currently hosted by Authorea as a group managed by our leadership team, Daniela, Sam, and Monica (see below). We have put together a series of documents to help you start and run a preprint journal club, write a preprint review (PREreview) and share it with everyone on this platform.
These resources are listed at the top and have the "PREreview tag". Here is a quick list with links to each document:
If you keep moving forward with the pages, you will find PREreviews written and shared by our AMAZING community members. Each PREreview can be assigned a FREE digital object identifier (DOI), and if of a preprint on bioRxiv, it will be linked automatically on bioRxiv under the abstract. Look for the PREreview logo under the preprint abstract (e.g., see
here).
Why preprints?
Over the past 30 years, publishing in the biological sciences has become a much lengthier process \cite{Vale_2015}. One way to separate the sharing of scientific outputs from quality evaluation expressed purely by the opinions of publishers and a few peers, is posting your manuscript as a preprint.
Preprints are complete pieces of scientific work
freely shared online before the completion of editorial peer review. Preprints are often the same manuscripts that are submitted to a journal for peer review, but are stored on freely accessible public servers such that they become available to the whole web community within 1-2 days from submission -- to learn more about preprints, check out the
Preprint Info Doc.
Even though the use of preprints in the life sciences has been rapidly increasing, their adoption is still far from being the default method of early and open access publication of scientific output. While change in the direction of preprint adoption will most likely occur as a consequence of journals’ and funding agencies’ new policies, we believe these changes will be more rapidly implemented in response to a bottom up cultural change fostered by initiatives such as PREreview.