Earth Science Is Ready for Preprints

Narock, T. W.; Goldstein, Evan B.; Jackson, Christopher; Bubeck, Alodie; Enright, Allison; Farquharson, Jamie; Fernández, Alfonso Diestro; Fernández‐Blanco, David; Girardclos, Stéphanie; Ibarra, Daniel E.; Lengger, Sabine K.; Mackay, Anson W.; Venema, Victor; Whitehead, Brandon; Ampuero, Jean‐Paul

doi:10.1029/2019eo121347

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“…Here we focus on quantifying the growth of nine OSF-hosted preprint services using submission metrics, preprint/postprint ratios, topic analysis, coauthorship network analysis, and annotation. Narock et al [17] previously examined the first year growth in EarthArXiv, the OSF hosted preprint service for the Earth Sciences. We expand on this previous work and investigate multiple OSF-hosted services spanning a range of disciplines.…”

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Quantifying the Growth of Preprint Services Hosted by the Center for Open Science

Narock

Goldstein

2019

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A wide range of disciplines are building preprint services—web-based systems that enable publishing non peer-reviewed scholarly manuscripts before publication in a peer-reviewed journal. We have quantitatively surveyed nine of the largest English language preprint services offered by the Center for Open Science (COS) and available through an Application Programming Interface. All of the services we investigate also permit the submission of postprints, non-typeset versions of peer-reviewed manuscripts. Data indicates that all services are growing, but with submission rates below more mature services (e.g., bioRxiv). The trend of the preprint-to-postprint ratio for each service indicates that recent growth is a result of more preprint submissions. The nine COS services we investigate host papers that appear in a range of peer-reviewed journals, and many of these publication venues are not listed in the Directory of Open Access Journals. As a result, COS services function as open repositories for peer-reviewed papers that would otherwise be behind a paywall. We further analyze the coauthorship network for each COS service, which indicates that the services have many small connected components, and the largest connected component encompasses only a small percentage of total authors on each service. When comparing the papers submitted to each service, we observe topic overlap measured by keywords self-assigned to each manuscript, indicating that search functionalities would benefit from cutting across the boundaries of a single service. Finally, though annotation capabilities are integrated into all COS services, it is rarely used by readers. Our analysis of these services can be a benchmark for future studies of preprint service growth.

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Quantifying the Growth of Preprint Services Hosted by the Center for Open Science

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Goldstein

2019

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“…Government policy affects the dissemination of products in other ways. The physical and biological sciences, including the geosciences, have moved toward the use of preprint servers recently to facilitate DOI creation and version control for manuscripts that have not gone through official peer review [45]. However, USGS authors are disallowed from placing draft manuscripts where they are available to the public, owing to the 2004 Office of Management and Budget (OMB) Peer Review Bulletin [44], which directs federal agencies to ensure their research has been peer reviewed prior to public dissemination.…”

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Measuring sustainability of seed-funded earth science informatics projects

2019

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Short term funding is a common funding model for informatics projects. Funders are interested in maximizing the sustainability and accessibility of the outputs, but there are no commonly accepted practices to do so in the Earth sciences informatics field. We constructed and applied a framework for sustainability drawing from other disciplines that have more published work focusing on sustainability of projects. This framework had seven sustainability influences (outputs modified, code repository used, champion present, workforce stability, support from other organizations, collaboration/partnership, and integration with policy), and three ways of defining sustainability (at the individual-, organization-, and community-level). Using this framework, we evaluated outputs of projects funded by the U.S. Geological Survey’s Community for Data Integration (CDI). We found that the various outputs are widely accessible, but not necessarily sustained or maintained. Projects with most sustainability influences often became institutionalized and met required needs of the community. Even if proposed outputs were not delivered or sustained, knowledge of lessons learned could be spread to build community capacity in a topic, which is another type of sustainability. We conclude by summarizing lessons for individuals applying for short-term funding, and for organizations managing programs that provide such funding, for maximizing sustainability of project outcomes.

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“…Many tools and systems, based on agreed standards and long-term models, facilitate these behaviors (Pourret et al, 2020b). The main preprint services for the Earth sciences are EarthArXiv and ESSOar, which are web-based systems that allow open access publishing of non-peer-reviewed scientific publications before they are published in a peer-reviewed journal (Narock et al, 2019). The use is expanding in general, but rates and completeness (data and code) of submissions differ by discipline.…”

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Open access in geochemistry from preprints to data sharing: past, present and future

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2022

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Earth Science Is Ready for Preprints

Abstract: The EarthArXiv preprint archive, in operation for almost a year and a half, makes the latest Earth science research available to a wider community.

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Quantifying the Growth of Preprint Services Hosted by the Center for Open Science

Quantifying the Growth of Preprint Services Hosted by the Center for Open Science

Measuring sustainability of seed-funded earth science informatics projects

Open access in geochemistry from preprints to data sharing: past, present and future

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