From: Ann Shumelda Okerson <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Tue, 12 Nov 2013 16:20:15 -0500

With thanks to Gary Price:

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From: Gary Price <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Tue, Nov 12, 2013 at 2:19 PM

"BioRxiv, launched yesterday by the nonprofit Cold Spring Harbor
Laboratory (CSHL), aims to be biologists' version of arXiv, the
popular preprint server where physicists have shared their draft
manuscripts for more than 20 years. The goal is to speed the
dissemination of research and give scientists a way to get feedback on
their papers before they are formally peer-reviewed, says John Inglis,
CSHL Press executive director. "There is a growing desire in the
community for this kind of service,” Inglis says.

It will be free to submit a paper or to read it in bioRxiv, Inglis
says. CSHL is paying the costs of the service (he declines to specify
them) but hopes that, like arXiv, it will ultimately attract
contributions. Although anybody can submit a paper, not everything
will be posted: A group of more than 40 "affiliate" scientists have
agreed to screen submissions to "assure us that this is real science,"
Inglis says. "We certainly don't want the enterprise to be sunk by
publishing a load of crap."

Another limitation is that bioRxiv is for life sciences, not medicine,
so it will not publish clinical trials or other research that is
"medically relevant," Inglis says. Human genetic data could be posted,
however."

Full Text Article via Science
http://news.sciencemag.org/biology/2013/11/new-preprint-server-aims-be-biologists-answer-physicists-arxiv


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