Biology Preprints Over Time: An Update
While the practice of preprinting in the life sciences is not completely new, it has grown dramatically over the past few years.

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While the practice of preprinting in the life sciences is not completely new, it has grown dramatically over the past few years.
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory's free, not-for-profit preprint service bioRxiv has received generous additional financial support.
At the ASAPbio Funders’ Workshop (May 24, 2016, NIH), representatives from 16 funding agencies requested that ASAPbio “develop a proposal describing the governance, infrastructure and standards desired for a preprint service that represents the views of the broadest number of stakeholders.” We are now holding a Technical Workshop to advise on the infrastructure and standards for a Central Service (CS) for preprints. ASAPbio will integrate the output of the meeting and community and stakeholder feedback into a proposal to funding agencies this fall. The funders may issue a formal RFA to which any interested parties could apply for funding.
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Preprints uploaded to a public server without formal review can speed up the sharing of biomedical information without harming the scientific process.
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