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John Inglis, PhD Co-founder, bioRxiv and
Executive Director, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press
[email protected] Twitter @JohnRInglis
The bioRxiv preprint service
COASP 2016, Arlington VA, September 22, 2016
Preprint (n): a complete but unpublished manuscript yet to be certified by peer review
“Because the process [of peer review] can be lengthy, authors use the bioRxiv service to make their manuscripts available as preprints before peer review, allowing other scientists to see, discuss, and comment on the findings immediately”
• Simple submission process • Authors’ PDFs – no
typesetting/mark-up • Posting almost immediate,
with screening but no peer review
• Revised versions can be posted any time
• Submission and access are free
Why did we start bioRxiv?
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, NY
Research at Cold Spring Harbor
• 600 scientific staff
• 50 research groups • Molecular biology and genetics • Cancer • Neuroscience • Plant biology • Genomics and bioinformatics • Quantitative biology
Science education & communication at Cold Spring Harbor
Conferences • Meetings • The Banbury Center • Cold Spring Harbor Asia, Suzhou, China
Professional education • Residential lab and lecture courses • Watson School of Biological Sciences
Publishing • Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press
Research journals
Review journals
Books
The mission of Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
To create knowledge and
to share knowledge
“It’s ridiculous I have to wait months to read a paper while it goes through peer review…let me decide for myself whether it’s any good”
“Think how much time is wasted!”
What biologists were saying
“I am writing a grant but the paper is not going to be published by the time I submit. The solution is a preprint server that can be referenced”
arXiv: a million preprints in physics, math, comp sci, quant bio
• Established 1991
• Mechanism for sharing findings prior to publication & establishing priority
• In 2012, number of biology submissions increased
Launched November 2013
For-profit start-up, conduit to PeerJ journal
For-profit, public peer-review journal
Commercial models
For-profit, host for figures, partial papers, etc.
Non-profit funded by Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory & Lourie Foundation
Non-profit funded by Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory & Lourie Foundation, hosted by HighWire Press
Non-profit, publisher-neutral models
Non-profit funded by Cornell, libraries & foundations, hosted by Cornell
Non-profit hosted by Open Science Framework
ChemRxiv Non-profit to be launched by American Chemical Society
Non-profit owned by SIPS, hosted by Open Science Framework
Benefits of preprints
• Rapid transmission of results
• Pre-publication feedback/discussion
• Visibility, especially for early-career scientists
• Evidence of productivity for grant/hiring committees
Accelerating communication
bioRxiv
Data courtesy of Stephen Royle
Received-published
Received-accepted
Accepted-published
bioRxiv screening
Author submits
ms
Affiliate screens
ms
Staff check
ms Manuscript Posted
Author proofs
ms
Rejected (not science, nonsense, health threat)
Author resubmits
ms
Staff check
ms
Author proofs
ms
versioning
Viewable by Affiliates Viewable by all
Affiliate flags paper for attention
Affiliate oks manuscript
bioRxiv features
• Posted manuscript date-stamped + given a DOI (citable) • Choice of article type (New, Confirmatory, or Contradictory Results)
• 26 subject categories
• Choice of license (CC0, CC BY, CC BY-NC, CC BY-ND, CC BY-NC-ND, all rights reserved)
• Article metrics and altmetrics
• Commenting
• Links to published versions
• Indexed in Google Scholar
Posts
• 6000 posted manuscripts (>90% approved) • 30% revised (many more than once) • 26,000 authors • 2600 institutions • 42 countries
• 60% of manuscripts published, in >300 journals
Posts
bioRxiv by subject
arXiv by subject
Usage
Direct commenting
Feedback/discussion
Blogs
Social media
?58K
Progress
• Behavior change: more biologists posting/reading preprints
• Policy change: more journals allow preprint posting • Rule change: NIH biosketch can now cite non-peer-reviewed publications • Change in community awareness
ASAPbio impact
ASAPbio survey
Change in journal policies
Changing citation policies
Changing indexing policies
Improving discovery
Improving discovery
Formal publication
Partnering with journals
Submission Peer review
Yur journal here
One-click submission Simultaneous
submission
Preprint posted
Formal publication
Further integration?
Submission Peer review
Yur journal here
Preprint posted
Commenting Social media
?
Conference integration
Automated feeds
Partnering with societies
Curated ‘channels’
Meeting ‘channels’
Journals Discussion
bioRxiv as a communication hub
Journals
Meetings Blogs
Confirmatory results
Contradictory results
Discussion
Re
pro
du
cib
ility
Ce
rtifica
tion
Next priorities
• Expanding the available journal submission choices
• Expanding ingestion of manuscripts from journals
• Developing APIs for third party services
• Expanding governance
• Adding services for authors, eg Hypothes.is
• Continuing advocacy for preprints with societies, funders, etc.
• Consolidating future funding
Open issues
• Priority claims and scooping
• Clinical scope
• Clinical criteria • Citation linking/summing
• Discoverability
• Retractions
• License conflicts
Grateful thanks to:
The bioRxiv Team Jan Argentine Linda Sussman Ted Roeder Richard Sever Inez Sialiano
The bioRxiv Affiliates and Advisors HighWire Press Partner Publishers Partner Submission Systems
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory The Lourie Foundation