Scholarly Publishing: “Who Killed the PrePrint, and Could It Make a Return?”
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)
Filed under: News, Open Access, Publishing, Roundup
About Gary Price
Gary Price (gprice@gmail.com) is a librarian, writer, consultant, and frequent conference speaker based in the Washington D.C. metro area. He earned his MLIS degree from Wayne State University in Detroit. Price has won several awards including the SLA Innovations in Technology Award and Alumnus of the Year from the Wayne St. University Library and Information Science Program. From 2006-2009 he was Director of Online Information Services at Ask.com.
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