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Biomedical journal and publisher hope to bring preprints to life : Nature Medicine : Nature Publishing Group
Harold Varmus is still waiting for the revolution. In a 1999 proposal he later described as a “manifesto,” the then director of the US National Institutes of Health (NIH) suggested creating an electronic repository to host freely accessible research papers, including manuscripts prior to their formal publication. The next year, a version of Varmus’s proposal spawned PubMed Central, a digital archive where all papers stemming from NIH-funded research must be submitted within 12 months of publication. However, the agency never created one key aspect of Varmus’ ultimate vision: a preprint portal.Nature Medicine.
Who Killed the PrePrint, and Could It Make a Return?
Blog Entry on Scientific American.List of academic journals by preprint policy
List of academic journals by preprint policyThe list contains all preprint policies for academic journals in the sectors mathematics and physics. The Wiki allows to fulfill the list.