PeerJ is pleased to announce the formation of the new 'PeerJ Preprints Advisory Group'. Made up of 15 individuals with a broad range of experience, this group will help advice PeerJ on matters relating to the academic community's adoption of preprints.
Similar to arXiv in the physical sciences, PeerJ Preprints is an un-peer-reviewed 'preprint server' for the biological, medical, health and computer sciences. Since launching in 2013, the preprint service has grown rapidly with more than 2,000 unique preprints; including 25% with multiple revisions. Because of this rapid growth and the clear level of adoption by the community, it was decided to form an advisory group and nominations were sought in April 2016.
As a result of the nomination and selection process, PeerJ will have the support and input of Stephen Curry (Prof at Imperial College); Al Dove (Director of Research and Conservation, Georgia Aquarium); Uta Francke (Prof at Stanford); Patricia Gowaty (Prof at UCLA); Jeffrey Ross-Ibarra (Prof at UC Davis); Heather Joseph (Executive Director of SPARC); Danny Kingsley (Head of Scholarly Communication, University of Cambridge); Erin McKiernan (Prof at University of Mexico); Ross Mounce (Post-doc at U of Cambridge, Co-Founder of the RIO Journal); Brian Nosek (Prof at University of Virginia and Director of the Center for Open Science); Victor Pylro (Prof and Head of the Brazilian Microbiome Project); Eric Topol (Prof at Scripps Translational Science Institute); Dagmar Waltemath (Group Leader, University of Rostock); Siouxsie Wiles (Prof at University of Auckland); and Greg Wilson (Software Carpentry Foundation).
Going forward, PeerJ will call on this Advisory Group to help gauge the 'pulse' of the community, and to provide advice on matters of policy or other important issues related to preprinting.
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