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Richard Sever, PhDAssistant Director, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press
Twitter: @cshperspectives
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Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, NY
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Research at Cold Spring Harbor
• 600 scientific staff
• 50 research groups• Molecular biology and genetics• Cancer• Neuroscience• Plant biology• Genomics and bioinformatics• Quantitative biology
• Ranked #1 in the world in molecular biology & genetics
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Science education and communication
Conferences• Meetings • The Banbury Center • Cold Spring Harbor Asia, Suzhou, China
Teaching• Watson School of Biological Sciences• Residential lab and lecture courses• DNA Learning Center
Publishing • Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press
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Research journals
Review journals
Books
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2013: CSHL launched a preprint server for biology
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“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 scientists 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 pre-print server that can be referenced”
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Biology appearing on the physics arXiv
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• A not-for-profit service of CSH Laboratory
• Makes papers available before consideration by a journal
• Submission + access free
• Posting almost immediate, with screening but no peer review
• Revised versions can be posted any time
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Features
• Posted manuscript date-stamped + given a DOI (citable)
• Indexed in Google Scholar
• Choice of article type (New, Confirmatory, or Contradictory Results)
• 25 subject categories
• Choice of license (CC BY, CC BY-NC, CC BY-ND, CC BY-NC-ND, all rights reserved)
• Article metrics
• Commenting
• Links to published versions
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Progress in a year
• ~1000 submissions (>90% approved)
• ~30% revised (many more than once)
• Papers subsequently published in >100 journals
Nature, Science, PNAS, eLife, Nature Genetics, Nature Neuroscience, Nature Communications, Genome Research, Genetics, Evolution, Biophysical Journal, PLoS One, PloS Genetics, Biology Open, Bioinformatics, American, Journal of Human Genetics, Journal of Neuroscience, BMC Genomics, BMC Biology, G3, Frontiers in Genetics, Frontiers in Neuroscience, Genome Biology, Interface, Molecular Systems Biology, Nucleic Acids Research, PeerJ, PLoS Computational Biology, Oncogene, Molecular Plant, Journal of Ecology, Epidemiology & Infection, Biochimie, Gigascience
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Progress in a year
• Behavior change: more biologists posting/reading preprints
• Policy change: more journals allowing preprint posting
• Rule change: NIH biosketch can now cite preprints
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• Feedback via social media
• Feedback via commenting
• Feedback via email
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Formalpublication
Making it easier for authors: journal integration
Submission Peer review
(not to scale…)
Preprintposted
Your journalhere
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Benefits
• Rapid transmission of results
• Pre-publication feedback/discussion
• Visibility, especially for early-career scientists
• Immediate availability to grant/hiring committees
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An essential resource