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What is a
PrePrint? |
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What
constitutes a PrePrint and when
should I submit my work as a
PrePrint? |
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Why do people
use PrePrints? What is their value? |
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Why should I
post my research as a PrePrint? |
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Do funders/job
search committees give credit for
PrePrints? |
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Why publish a
paper if the work is already a
PrePrint? |
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How does
Syllaba Press International Inc.
preprint posting process work? |
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Can I revise
my PrePrint? |
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What if I want
to update my PrePrint? |
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Can a PrePrint
be removed? |
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Can PrePrints
be cited in a journal publication? |
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Why are
PrePrints posted by Syllaba Press
International Inc. under a CC BY
license? |
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Will posting a
PrePrint lead to my research being
scooped? |
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Can I submit
my research to another journal if my
PrePrinted manuscript is rejected by
a Syllaba Press International Inc.
journal? |
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What happens
to my preprint when my manuscript is
published? |
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What is the
embargo policy for PrePrints? |
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If my PrePrint
receives feedback will this be seen
by Syllaba Press International Inc.? |
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What is
a PrePrint? |
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A PrePrint is
a complete scientific manuscript
that is uploaded by the authors to a
public server. The PrePrint contains
complete data and methodologies; it
is often the same manuscript being
submitted to a journal. After a
brief quality-control inspection to
ensure that the work is scientific
in nature, the author’s manuscript
is posted within a day or so on the
Web without peer review and can be
viewed without charge by anyone in
the world. Based upon feedback
and/or new data, new versions of
your PrePrint can be submitted;
however, prior PrePrint versions are
also retained and cannot be removed.
PrePprints allow scientists to
directly control the dissemination
of their work to the world-wide
scientific community.
In most cases, the same work posted
as PrePrint also is submitted for
peer review at a journal. Thus,
PrePrints (rapid, but not validated
through peer-review) and journal
publication (slow, but providing
validation using peer-review) work
in parallel as a communication
system for scientific research. |
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What constitutes a PrePrint and when
should I submit my work as a
PrePrint? |
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A PrePrint is
usually the same manuscript that is
submitted to a journal, although
other types of information that are
currently difficult to publish (e.g.
negative results) could be
transmitted. |
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Why do people use preprints? What is
their value? |
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Because
journal publication is slow and the
peer review process unpredictable,
PrePrints provide a mechanism for
rapidly communicating research with
the scientific community. This is
good for science overall, since
disseminating new knowledge or
techniques leads to new discoveries.
However, there are tangible benefits
to the scientist who uses PrePrints,
a subset of which are described
below. Many of these points are also
articulated in a
commentary
in Science Magazine (May 20, 2016).
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Evidence of productivity and
accomplishment. A PrePrint
provides funding agencies and
promotion and hiring committees
with public evidence of your
most recent accomplishments,
which is pertinent for their
decision-making.
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Visibility of work. Promotes
invitation to meetings (meeting
organizers are often looking for
recent work not published in
journals).
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Feedback on your work. You
can send the link of your public
PrePrint to fellow scientists
and ask for comments. Sometimes
scientists might contact you
through email or through
commentary on the server. These
type of interactions and
feedback can help you to improve
your final journal publication
beyond the two or three
anonymous scientists who review
your paper for a journal.
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Establishing priority of
discoveries and ideas.
PrePrints are the main mechanism
for disseminating work and
establishing priority in the
science.
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Potential for developing new
collaborations earlier. Once
your technique or results are in
the public domain, new
interactions can occur which can
advance your work.
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Open Access of your work across
the globe. Your research is
made available to all scientists
without requirement of
subscription or other
journal-imposed pay wall.
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Why should I post my research as a
PrePrint? |
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There are a
number of reasons to post work as a
PrePrint including (but not limited
to):
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PrePrints allow rapid
communication of research to the
scientific community.
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Comments from the wider
community can improve a
manuscript prior to submitting
to a journal, or while making
revisions.
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Authors can stake primacy and
intellectual claim to methods,
results and ideas contained
within a paper.
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PrePrints are citable and can
accrue citations while the
research simultaneously goes
through the peer review process.
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Do funders/job search committees
give credit for PrePrints? |
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We are
tracking the policies of both
funders (including NIH, HHMI,
Wellcome, MRC, HFSP, CZI, CIHR,
Simons, EMBO, Helmsley, Cancer
Research UK, & BBSRC) and
universities that have considered
PrePrints in assessment processes
(including UC Davis, NYU, UCSC, UT
Austin, and the Rockefeller
University). |
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Why publish a paper if the work is
already a PrePrint? |
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In the
present day reward system, journal
publications play a major role in
funding and promotions. For such
reasons, the vast majority of
research-paper PrePrints (ie, not
meeting proceedings, reviews, etc)
are also submitted to journals, even
though work is one’s field is
generally always seen and discussed
first as a PrePrint.
However, journals provide many
services for improving and
validating work, which are
labor-intensive:
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Journals provide an
infrastructure for peer review
and quality control.
Journal-based peer review
remains the present-day gold
standard of validation, despite
its shortcomings.
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Visibility of work is promoted
by broad journal readership or
added journal features
(highlights, perspectives, etc).
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paper can improve through
revisions and editorial
corrections.
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journal can provide assurance
that the authors have complied
with standards of the field for
database depositions, conflict
of interest disclosures, and
other issues.
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How does Syllaba Press International
Inc. PrePrint posting process work? |
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When
submitting research to Syllaba Press
International Inc., authors are
offered the opportunity to “opt in”
to having Syllaba Press
International Inc. post their
manuscript and figures to our local
preprints servers. Syllaba Press
International Inc. will then screen
these according to posting criteria
and those that pass screening, are
sent directly to our local preprints
servers and will be publicly
available as a preprint in a few
days.
Syllaba Press International Inc. are
only able to post preprints at the
point of initial submission to a
Syllaba Press International Inc.
journals. Unfortunately, we are
unable to send revised manuscripts
or transferred submissions to others
preprints servers. |
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Can I revise my PrePrint? |
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Yes, you are
encouraged to update your PrePrint
with the most up-to-date version as
your manuscript evolves and
improves. |
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What if I want to update my PrePrint? |
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Most PrePrint
servers allow new versions of the
manuscript to be uploaded. Thus, you
can update your paper based upon new
input received from the community or
through a journal-based peer review
process. However, the original and
all subsequent versions of the paper
are retained and can be viewed. Most
journals will not allow the final
copy edited, journal-approved
version to be uploaded. Please check
the exact policy of the journal to
which you submitted your work. |
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Can a PrePrint be removed? |
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Once a
PrePrint is publicly available it
becomes a permanent part of the
scientific record and cannot be
removed. However, it is possible to
revise the manuscript with the most
recent version at any time prior to
publication in a journal. When the
final article is published the two
versions are linked, providing
insight into the evolution of your
manuscript. |
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Can PrePrints be cited in a journal
publication? |
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Yes,
preprints are a citable part of the
scientific record. All preprints are
given a Persistent Identifier of
Uniforms Resources (Cirex-iD), which
should be used when adding to the
reference list of a manuscript.
Please see the individual journal
Submission Guidelines pages for
details on how to format preprints
as references. |
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Why are PrePrints posted by Syllaba
Press International Inc. under a CC
BY license? |
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Syllaba Press
International Inc. applies a
Creative
Commons Attribution (CC BY) license
to all our published articles, and
preprints posted through Syllaba
Press International Inc. are no
different. Creative Commons licenses
and legal tools help break down the
barriers to sharing by communicating
rights and permissions up front. A
permissive license such as CC BY
allows innovative reuse of content
and signals early intent regarding
how much a researcher wants to share
their work.
This simple, 1-page
infographic
can be helpful in explaining at a
glance he differences in licensing
choices for preprints. |
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Will posting a PrePrint lead to my
research being scooped? |
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Being scooped
due to preprinting your research is
unlikely, and indeed there is likely
be to greater protection and overall
fairness in establishing credit for
work by submitting both to a
preprint server (for fair and timely
disclosure) and to a journal (for
validation by peer review), as
discussed below. |
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Can I submit my research to another
journal if my PrePrinted manuscript
is rejected by a Syllaba Press
International Inc. journal? |
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The vast
majority of journals accept
submissions that have already been
posted on a preprint server, however
there are a few that do not. There
is a
list of
academic journals by
preprint policy available on
Wikipedia, but please note that we
cannot guarantee the accuracy of
this page. |
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What happens to my PrePrint when my
manuscript is published? |
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Once your
article has been published, the
preprint will automatically display
a link to published version at the
journal where is was accepted.
Manuscripts published by Syllaba
Press International Inc. will also
have a link back to the preprint so
it is possible to view previous
iterations of the work. |
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What is the embargo policy for
PrePrints? |
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Syllaba Press
International Inc. does not embargo
work that has been made available as
a PrePrint. For more information,
please see Syllaba Press
International Inc.
embargo policy
page. We advise authors
and institutions against seeking
publicity and press coverage at the
preprint stage, and recommend that
press releases are distributed at or
after the time of publication of the
article. |
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If my PrePrint receives feedback
will this be seen by Syllaba Press
International Inc.? |
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If the
feedback is relevant to the
scientific content of the
manuscript, and the manuscript is
under consideration at Syllaba Press
International Inc. journals, we will
pass the comments to the editor
handling peer review, who may wish
to use them when making their
decision.
If you have any other questions
regarding to PrePrints of Syllaba
Press International Inc., please
email us at <preprints@syllabapress.us>
or visit
<http://preprints.syllabapress.us> |
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