Judy Luther <https://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/author/judyluther/> nicely explained the advantages of submitting pre-prints. Significant events have occurred in rapid succession in the last year signaling that preprints, the author’s original manuscript before submission to a journal, will play a much larger role in the landscape. Developments with DOIs, changes in funder expectations, and the launch of new services indicate that preprints will no longer be limited to the hard sciences and social sciences. *link <https://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2017/04/18/stars-aligning-preprints/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+ScholarlyKitchen+%28The+Scholarly+Kitchen%29>* for the full article. -- Regards Siva Shankar K -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.