Just Announced: American Geophysical Union (AGU) and Atypon are Developing Earth and Space Science Open Preprint Server

From a Joint Announcement:

The American Geophysical Union (AGU) and Atypon announced today a joint initiative to develop Earth and Space Science Open Archive (ESSOAr), a community server for the open dissemination of Earth and space science preprints and rich conference presentations. Development of the server, community engagement, and policies and practices will be a community effort guided by an international advisory board that will include representatives from societies across the Earth and space sciences.
Its initial development will be supported by Wiley, AGU’s publishing partner.
Atypon is building the new open access Earth and space science preprint server on top of its online publishing platform, Literatum.
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ESSOAr will extend the traditional role of archiving manuscripts by also allowing researchers the option to preserve and to make citable presentations, posters, and related multimedia content from scientific conferences. More than 50,000 posters are presented across Earth and space science conferences, including about 17,000 at the AGU Fall Meeting. These are rich presentations of original research that can add to the understanding of the scientific process, but unless a follow-up article is published on the topic, that science is no longer discoverable. Their preservation will greatly increase scientific transparency.
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An advisory board will help guide ESSOAr, and currently includes participation from the Association for the Sciences of Limnology and Oceanography, Earth Science Information Partners, European Geosciences Union, Geochemical Society, Geological Society of America (GSA), Japan Geoscience Union (JpGU), and Society of Exploration Geophysicists. “GSA is pleased to participate in this advisory group to explore all the options for preprint publications,” said Vicki McConnell, Executive Director, GSA.
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ESSOAr will begin accepting content in 2018.

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