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Scholarly Publishing: “Who Killed the PrePrint, and Could It Make a Return?”

Filed by on April 4, 2013

Here’s a guest post by Jason Hoyt and Peter Binfield published by Scientific American.

Hoyt and Binfield are the co-founders of PeerJ.

This guest post provides at in-depth look at preprints (rationale for them, history, sources)  and also introduces PeerJ PrePrints, a new service that formally went live yesterday.

See Also:  Scholarly Publishing: PeerJ Launches Open Access Journal and Preprint Server (Roundup)(June 12, 2012)

See Also: “PeerJ: An Open-Access Experiment” by Peter Binfield (October 31, 2012)

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Gary Price (gprice@mediasourceinc.com) is a librarian, writer, consultant, and frequent conference speaker based in the Washington D.C. metro area. Before launching INFOdocket, Price and Shirl Kennedy were the founders and senior editors at ResourceShelf and DocuTicker for 10 years. From 2006-2009 he was Director of Online Information Services at Ask.com, and is currently a contributing editor at Search Engine Land.

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