Publish you paper before it is published!

What is a “preprint”?

• Your own manuscript can be published online before or during submission to a journal

• Preprints are not peer-reviewed• Most journals accept preprints and

some even allow direct preprint submission

• Biology preprint server is bioRxiv• preprints can be rejected for

plagiarism and non-science

Advantages of preprinting

• Your research is immediately available to the community and not months and years after a publishing battle

• Preprinting can speed up publication process and prevent unjustified rejections• You can add your “unpublished” work to your CV if you made preprints!• Many preprints have already featured in science news, long before they were

published in a journal!

Disdvantages of preprinting

• No real disadvantages• Some publishers and journals refuse manuscripts published as preprints,

because they are not “novel”• These journals are not something you should submit your paper to anyway• Many reversed stance from anti- to pro-print (see ACS!)