Preprint policies among 14 academic publishers |
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| Authors: | Jaime A Teixeira da Silva Judit Dobránszki |
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| Institution: | 1. P. O. Box 7, Miki-cho post office, Ikenobe 3011-2, Kagawa-ken 761-0799, Japan;2. Research Institute of Nyíregyháza, IAREF, University of Debrecen, Nyíregyháza, P.O. Box 12, H-4400, Hungary |
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| Abstract: | The objective of this study was to assess how 14 large and established scientific publishers have adopted the use of preprints and how their policies changed in a one-year period between June 2017 and June 2018, if any. The core search was performed using the Sherpa/RoMEO database. Of all publishers (2516, now 2553) listed in the RoMEO database, 80.3% of the publishers examined allow self-archiving, but only half of the publishers (47.3%) allow the archiving of preprints in February of 2018, while this percentage increased to 48% in June 2018. These data were practically constant over a one-year period even as the number of preprint servers has increased. Several exceptions exist among journals within each of the tested Sherpa/RoMEO-indexed publishers, and in some cases, a reversal in policy was observed, i.e., from allowing to no longer allowing the archival of preprints. |
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| Keywords: | Corresponding author ASAPbio bioRxiv Peer review Preprint server Sherpa/RoMEO |
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