Most scientists agree that the research in biology could be accelerated and improved if scientific publishing was made easier, faster, and more transparent. On February 16th and 17th, ~70 members of the science community, young and old, leaders and trainees, and representatives of journals, scientific societies, academic institutions, and funding agencies, will convene at the Howard Hughes Medical Instit...

Michael Eisen1,2 and Leslie B. Vosshall 3,4 1 Department of Molecular and Cell Biology and 2 Howard Hughes Medical Institute, University of California, Berkeley, CA.

Vitek Tracz and Rebecca Lawrence F1000, Middlesex House, 34-42 Cleveland St, London, W1T 4LB, [email protected], [email protected] We support the adoption of preprints in biomedicine, as one of a number of innovations that will help to ac... However, we believe that simply adopting preprints on their own, whilst retaining the existing traditional journal publishing system, misses an important opportunity to make a more significant change to the way new findings are shared, and to how res...

In their September 17 opinion piece, “Don’t Delay News of Medical Breakthroughs,” Eric Topol and Harlan Krumholz call for rapid publication of scientific results.

A group of NIH authors have released a new article-level metric called the RCR, which normalizes an article’s citations to those in its network. http://biorxiv.org/content/early/2015/10/22/029629

Ron Vale’s article detailing changes in communicating biomedical science and the potential benefits of the widespread use of preprints is now available at PNAS. The article previously appeared as a preprint on BiorXiv.