From: Ann Shumelda Okerson <[log in to unmask]> Date: Thu, 1 Dec 2016 20:56:30 -0500 Of possible interest, since biologists have not been much a part of the preprint culture: http://www.nature.com/news/big-biology-projects-warm-up-to-preprints-1.21074 Consortium backed by US National Institutes of Health is first major biology programme to mandate online publication of results ahead of peer review. http://www.nature.com/news/big-biology-projects-warm-up-to-preprints-1.21074 "The 4D Nucleome, a major research consortium funded by the US National Institutes of Health (NIH), is now requiring that all manuscripts related to its US$120-million, five-year programme are posted to an online preprint server ahead of peer review. And a privately funded, US$600-million biomedical research initiative in California is considering whether to demand its investigators do the same. "Proponents of these mandates say that they will help to foster wider acceptance of pre-publication in the life sciences, a practice that is gaining popularity among biologists but still remains the exception rather than the rule. However, some worry that forcing scientists to use preprint servers is the wrong way to go about persuading the biomedical research community of the value of sharing papers ahead of formal journal publication."