Today, the Center for Open Science issued a press release announcing the launch of 6 new preprint servers, including paleorXiv. To compliment this, here is our own press release (PDF available here). Press release We are pleased to announce the launch of a free digital archive for Palaeontology, paleorXiv. Created with the technical assistance of […]
This week, I am very excited to announce the launch of paleorXiv! On the first day, we published 16 manuscripts alone, which is a great success by any measure! What does this mean? PaleorXiv provides a non-profit platform for paleontologists to freely upload their working papers, pre-prints, accepted manuscripts (post-prints), and published papers. We also […]
Yes, says Jon Tennant – scholars should cite literature based on relevance and quality, not just because it has been published in a journal. I have a new editorial out in The Biologist, the magazine published by The Royal Society of Biology, based on a previous discussion on this blog. It’s freely available online here, […]