Ten simple rules to consider regarding preprint submission

• Published in: PLoS computational biology 2017-05, Vol.13 (5), p.e1005473-e1005473
• Main Authors: Bourne, Philip E, Polka, Jessica K, Vale, Ronald D, Kiley, Robert
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Subjects: Algorithms; Archives & records; Biology; Biology and Life Sciences; Checklist; Computer and Information Sciences; Copyright; Documentation - methods; Engineering and Technology; Funding; Grants; Gravitational waves; Information Dissemination - methods; Internet; Licenses; Medicine and Health Sciences; Methods; Open access; Peer review; Peer Review, Research - methods; People and Places; Periodicals as Topic; Physical Sciences; Research and Analysis Methods; Science; Science publishing; Studies; Writing
• ISSN: 1553-7358; 1553-734X; 1553-7358
• DOI: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1005473

About the Authors: Philip E. Bourne * E-mail: [e-mail] Affiliation: Office of the Director, The National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-7618-7292 Jessica K. Polka Affiliation: Whitehead Institute, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America Ronald D. Vale Affiliation: Department of Cellular and Molecular Pharmacology and the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-3460-2758 Robert Kiley Affiliation: Wellcome Library, The Wellcome Trust, London, United Kingdom ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4733-2558Citation: Bourne PE, Polka JK, Vale RD, Kiley R (2017) Ten simple rules to consider regarding preprint submission. [...]it could also be a paper that has been peer reviewed and either is awaiting formal publication by a journal or was rejected, but the authors are willing to make the content public. [...]a preprint is a research output that has not completed a typical publication pipeline but is of value to the community and deserving of being easily discovered and accessed. [...]of an ASAPbio meeting held in February of 2016, a paper was published [6] that describes the pros and cons of preprints from the perspective of the stakeholders-scientists, publishers, and funders. [...]when posting a preprint, authors are encouraged to use licenses and formats that facilitate reuse while retaining copyright to their work. The complementary roles of preprints and journals in establishing priority and validation, respectively, are discussed in a commentary by Vale and Hyman [13]. Since preprints may extend beyond traditional published papers, they create process of developing a...