Friends: Please share with life scientists in your institutions. A revolutionary change is happening and Indian biologists should not miss it. < https://blog.highwire.org/2016/06/01/a-preprint-goes-viral-what-happens-next...

BY JOHN SACK https://blog.highwire.org/author/johnsack/ of HighWire Press, Stanford JUNE 1, 2016 https://blog.highwire.org/2016/06/01/a-preprint-goes-viral-what-happens-next... "preprints are now in the workflows of authors, and that a preprint can create as large a wave of recognition and access as a journal publication can" "preprints are the next leg of digital transformation of scholarly communication – with online journals(1) and scholarly-specialized search engines(2) being the first two legs. Industry identifiers such as DOI and ORCID, open access journals and data, and megajournals, are other legs. (This is a centipede we have here, with the number of legs not yet determined!)" Please also see Berg, J. et al. “Preprints for the life sciences: The time is right for biologists to post their research findings onto preprint servers http://science.sciencemag.org/content/352/6288/899”. *Science*, v 352, p 899, 20 May 2016. -- Arun http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4398-4658 http://www.researcherid.com/rid/B-9925-2009