technology and innovation of preprints is represented in the strategy of Plan U, a tactic for universal access to productive and low-cost research to provide researcher's open access to the results of research (5) . Thus, besides open scientific data sharing, agility in the socialization of results, open scientific tools, open laboratory notebooks, discoveries or research selections (2,6) , the preprint model gives priority to discoveries and ideas, is low cost and easily found, accessed and cited, since it does not undergo the typical flow of a peer-review publication (5) . It also enhances career progression and improves communication culture in the scientific community (7) .In fact, this movement for Open Science bring the benefits that come from the adoption of the preprint model: agility, considering the rapid availability online of the document to the scientific community for reading and citation (8) ; free, unrestricted and open access (5) ; assurance of originality, ensuring the priority of the discovery or research topic to the author, institution, laboratory of research group (8) . The adoption of the preprint model also straightly relates to the defense of Open Science when it makes research results freely available for authors and readers in a free online repository that favors authors with the exemption of submission and publication rates or even of the fees for accessing the published articles, generating economies. Besides, other advantages are the increasing number of publications, considering that the distribution of preprints uses DOI (Digital Object Identifier) (2) ; the improvement of the manuscript, since the preprint can be commented by peers and improved in future versions, which can be accessed by readers (5) ; simultaneous submission, since a preprint submission does not prevent that the manuscript be submitted to a peer-review journal (8) . Furthermore, the minimization of study duplication has been mentioned, since the fast availability of research results can prevent financial investment in new studies, because there are already trials in course (2) . Other aspects highlighted in literature were the publication of negative results in the preprint model, often rejected by peer-review journals, and the assurance of publication, because even if it takes time for the manuscript to be evaluated by a journal or to be rejected, it will be distributed through preprint (8) . As the preprints can present methodological, statistic and other mistakes, agility in publication can allow for easy detection of these mistakes and correction for future versions (2) . Another point to highlight is the fast dissemination of the manuscript, which increases the preprints' citation window (8) .As we reinforce the many benefits of adopting the preprint publication model and the steps towards the alignment to Open Science practices, some challenges to its implementation should be defined in the fields of Nursing and Health Sciences: partial information from the production of knowledge can have an impact on prof...