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."