Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL) and The Public Library of Science (PLOS) have expanded their partnership to offer researchers more options for rapidly and easily sharing their research before publication in a peer-reviewed journal. Beginning January 2022, three PLOS journals - PLOS Medicine, PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases, and PLOS ONE - will offer authors the option to have their manuscript automatically forwarded to the preprint server medRxiv for posting as a preprint.
Launched in June 2019, medRxiv is a preprint server for medical research, owned and operated by Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, and managed in partnership with Yale and the global health knowledge provider BMJ. It currently hosts more than 27,500 manuscripts from 153,000 researchers in 140 countries. PLOS is the first publisher to implement this “journal-to-medRxiv” integration via the Editorial Manager journal submission system.
CSHL has been a key player in helping the field of biology share data transparently. In November 2013 bioRxiv, an open access preprint repository for the biological sciences hosted by CSHL, was founded. Additionally, the CSHL Meetings & Courses Program brings scientists together from all over the world, allowing researchers and institutions to communicate and collaborate effectively on a number of different topics. For example, a small meeting sparked discussions that led to the founding of the Protein Data Bank in 1971, which was the first shared database in biology.
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