As can be seen from a series of recent publications, there is great interest surrounding preprints—scholarly manuscripts that are published ahead of peer review. And while these studies show a rise in the number of documents posted on preprint servers, they fail to offer a clear picture on how the growing number of preprint servers are being used, and how different communities are engaging with preprints. That’s why ASAPbio teamed up with the Scholarly Communications Lab on a project investigating preprint uptake and use across life and other sciences.
They will be working on a four-part blog series that will illustrate the many challenges in working with preprint metadata. This issue look at Center for Open Science’s SHARE database that aggregates from multiple sources.
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