bioRxiv

bioRxiv
Type of site
 Science
Available in English
Owner Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
Slogan(s) The Preprint Server for Biology
Website biorxiv.org
Alexa rank Increase 68,522 (as of September 2016)[1]
Commercial No
Launched November 2013 (2013-11)
Current status Online

bioRxiv is a preprint repository for the biological sciences launched in November 2013.[2] It is hosted by the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL).[3] As preprints, papers hosted on bioRxiv are not peer-reviewed, but undergo basic screening and checked against plagiarism. Readers may offer comments on the preprint. It was inspired by and intends to complement the arXiv repository, which mostly focuses on physics and connected disciplines, launched in 1991 by Paul Ginsparg (who also serves on the bioRxiv advisory board). It received support from both the CSHL and the Lourie Foundation.[4]

Prior to the establishment of bioRxiv, biological scientists were divided on the issue of having a dedicated preprint repository.[2] Many had concerns of having their research scooped by competitors and losing their claim to discovery. However, several geneticists had submitted papers to the "quantitative biology" section of the arXiv repository (launched in 2003) and no longer had those concerns, as they could point to preprints to support their claims of discovery.[2][5]

Jocelyn Kaiser of Science said that in their first year, the repository had "attracted a modest but growing stream of papers", having hosted 824 preprints.[6] As a result, several (but not all) biology journals have updated their policies on preprints.[4][6] clarifying they do not considered preprints to be a 'prior publication' for purpose of the Ingelfinger rule. In 2015, over 20,000 tweets had been made about bioRxiv-hosted preprints.[4] As of February 2016, the submission rate to bioRxiv had steadily increased from ~60 to ~200 per month, with a total of 3100 papers received.[4] As of November 2016, over 6,800 papers have been accepted. [7]

Fields

bioRxiv accepts preprints in the following disciplines

bioRxiv to Journals

The bioRxiv to Journals (B2J) initiative allows authors to submit their manuscript directly to a journal's submission system through bioRxiv. Journals currently participating in B2J are:

See also

References

  1. ↑ "biorxiv.org Site Overview". Alexa Internet. Retrieved 2016-09-11.
  2. 1 2 3 Callaway, Ewen (12 November 2013). "Preprints come to life". Nature. 503 (7475): 180. doi:10.1038/503180aFreely accessible.
  3. ↑ "About bioRxiv". bioRxiv. Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory. Retrieved 2016-09-07.
  4. 1 2 3 4 Inglis, John R.; Sever, Richard (12 February 2016). "bioRxiv: a progress report". ASAPbio. Retrieved 2016-09-11.
  5. ↑ Callaway, Ewen (31 July 2012). "Geneticists eye the potential of arXiv". Nature. 488 (7409): 19. doi:10.1038/488019aFreely accessible.
  6. 1 2 Kaiser, Jocelyn (11 November 2014). "BioRxiv at 1 year: A promising start". Science. Retrieved 2016-09-07.
  7. ↑ "Search Results | bioRxiv". biorxiv.org. Retrieved 2016-11-23.

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