{"id":3725,"date":"2016-02-10T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-02-10T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pl-asapbio.local\/draft-journal-statement\/"},"modified":"2025-03-28T21:38:40","modified_gmt":"2025-03-28T21:38:40","slug":"draft-journal-statement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/asapbio.org\/draft-journal-statement\/","title":{"rendered":"Draft Statement Regarding Pre-Posting of Articles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Developed for Discussion at ASAPbio by The Royal Society, PLOS, eLife, and EMBO Press<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We are committed to increasing the accessibility of research and ensuring that it is communicated as rapidly as possible. To accelerate this process, we encourage researchers to deposit early versions of articles they intend to submit to a peer-reviewed journal in appropriate subject repositories such as <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/arxiv.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">arXiv<\/span><\/i><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/biorxiv.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">bioRxiv<\/span><\/i><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. The manuscript submitted to a journal, an earlier draft, or any part thereof may be deposited at any time and made freely available. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><b><\/b><span id=\"more-341\"><\/span>Posting on a recognised preprint server does not constitute prior publication or a breach of our press embargo policies (where they exist), and will prejudice neither the peer review process nor publication in our journals or monographs. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The advantages for you the researcher are:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">making other researchers aware of your findings as soon as possible without having to wait for formal publication<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">establishing the priority of your work<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">enabling you to cite work, for example in applications for jobs, fellowships, grants, conferences, by providing a link to a pre-publication output<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">receiving constructive feedback on your work from a wide group before publication<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">increased readership of your article<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">When posting an article on a pre-print server or a preprint in a repository, we recommend that researchers:<\/span><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">make clear the status of the work, e.g. that it has not been formally peer reviewed, revised or accepted by a journal (or other recognised venue).<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">take responsibility to safeguard sensitive information, such as patient identities or the location of endangered species, and adhere to appropriate standards of reporting and ethical oversight.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">add a link to the final publisher version, once the article is accepted and formally published.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Developed for Discussion at ASAPbio by The Royal Society, PLOS, eLife, and EMBO Press We are committed to increasing the accessibility of research and ensuring that it is communicated as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[42,44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3725","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-guest-posts","category-preprints"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/asapbio.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3725","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/asapbio.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/asapbio.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asapbio.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asapbio.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3725"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/asapbio.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3725\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4633,"href":"https:\/\/asapbio.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3725\/revisions\/4633"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/asapbio.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3725"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asapbio.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3725"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asapbio.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3725"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}