Prelights a new community platform for preprint highlights
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1) preLights is a new community platform for early-career researchers to write engaging summaries and highlight key findings from preprint articles. 2) The summaries are in a "News & Views" style format that includes the preprint information, a short summary, key findings, questions for the author, and the author's response. 3) The goal is to build a resource that helps the scientific community stay up-to-date with the growing number of preprints and champions open science.
Prelights a new community platform for preprint highlights
- 1. preLights: a new community platform for preprint highlights Máté Pálfy (preLights Community Manager) The Company of Biologists OpenCon Oxford 30 November 2018
- 2. The Company of Biologists Our charitable activities Facilitating scientific meetings and communities Providing travel grants for young researchers Supporting and funding research societies Not for profit publisher run by distinguished practising scientists Supporting biologists, inspiring biology
- 4. Preprints (Source: PrePubmed.org) The growth of preprints in the biological sciences Version of a scientific paper that precedes publication in a peer-reviewed journal and is uploaded to a public server
- 5. Benefits of preprints For Authors - Rapid dissemination of results - Early feedback on work from community - Establishment of ‘priority’ for a particular finding - Preprint can be referenced For the scientific community - Earlier access to new findings & technologies (but also negative results, reports on flaws and confirmatory results) - Freely accessible - Opens up dialogue about work
- 6. Some challenges with preprints Difficult to keep up with preprint literature Public commenting on preprints is not happening (Source: PrePubmed.org) The growth of preprints in the biological sciences
- 7. Early-career researchers are at the heart of preLights Building a resource of preprint highlights for the community Championing preprints & open science
- 8. Early-career researchers are at the heart of preLights Building a resource of preprint highlights for the community Championing preprints & open science
- 9. Preprint information & link Short engaging summary of the preprint preLighter profile (link) Background information preLights: News & Views type of articles for preprints
- 10. Key findings preLighter’s take on preprint Questions to the preprint author preLights: News & Views type of articles for preprints
- 11. Author’s response to questions preLights: News & Views type of articles for preprints preLights posts are linked in bioRxiv Coming soon: indexing in Europe PMC
- 12. preLights post referenced in response to reviewers
- 13. preLights articles cover a broad range of fields
- 14. Early-career researchers are at the heart of preLights Building a resource of preprint highlights for the community Championing preprints & open science
- 15. Championing preprints & open science Meeting up at conferences Discussions, giving feedback to each other Commentaries and blog posts
- 16. We help preLighters build their profile
- 17. We are promoting preLights in CoB journals (eTOC, Snippets), The Node (monthly post)…
- 18. So far the preLights ‘experiment’ is encouraging Initial stats on preLights: • Launched end of February 2018 • 90 ‘preLighters’ • >200 posts after 8 months • 30% of posts feature an author’s response • ~2000 views per week • >2000 followers on twitter • Feedback from community has been hugely positive “Wonderful! This is a game changer” “It looks fantastic!” “I do like the ‘Author’s Response’ section” “great initiative” “Showing how preprints allow for the evolution of the scientific publishing model”
- 19. Apply to join the team of preLighters!