NIH Preprint Pilot Expands to Include Preprints Across NIH-funded Research

Guest post by Kathryn Funk, program manager for NLM’s PubMed Central. Originally posted on the Musings from the Mezzanine blog. Kathryn Funk, Program Manager, PubMed Central, NLM In 2020, I shared information about NLM’s launch of the NIH Preprint Pilot: A New Experiment for a New Era to explore how inclusion of preprints in our literature resources, PubMed Central (PMC) and PubMed, could accelerate the discoverability and maximize the impact of NIH-supported research. Preprints are complete, public drafts of scientific documents that are not yet peer reviewed. We are now expanding into a second phase of the pilot to inform our understanding of the role of preprints in communicating the breadth of NIH-funded research. Coinciding with the designation of 2023 as the Year of Open Science, this second phase will run for a year and encompass all preprints reporting on NIH-funded research and posted to an eligible preprint server on or after January 1, 2023. A 2016 NIH request for information found that scientists post preprints to speed dissemination, increase transparency of their research, and establish priority of discovery. Additional benefits noted include helping junior investigators obtain credit for their work, providing authors with the chance to incorporate feedback into their drafts prior to publication, and even form new collaborations. Preprints can also facilitate distribution of research results and related data that are not formally published (e.g., negative o...
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