Sharing pre-prints

A pre-print is the version of a scholarly publication that precedes peer-review. Sharing preprints on public servers like arXiv, bioRxiv, etc. is becoming increasingly common in some fields.

Some of the benefits are:

• Faster dissemination of research results
• Providing evidence of your latest achievements (N.B. pre-prints receive a DOI and are linkable)
• Establishing priority of discovery and getting credit
• Receiving feedback and enhancing quality

More information

• A Practical Guide to Preprints: Accelerating Scholarly Communication