Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL) has announced a new collaboration with the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative (CZI) that will help accelerate the understanding of life science for the benefit of human health and disease.
New funding from CZI will support the development and expansion of CSHL's bioRxiv preprint service, a free platform that enables life science researchers to quickly and easily share drafts of papers before they are published in peer-reviewed research journals.
It takes a significant amount of time for a research paper to be peer-reviewed and published, and important findings are often not widely available for months or years. Sharing research discoveries through a service like bioRxiv provides opportunities for scientists to solicit feedback, collaborate, and improve their research, in ways that complement the peer-review process.
In only three years, bioRxiv has received 10,000 manuscripts from 55,000 authors in more than 90 countries. There are more than 1 million page views and downloads of these papers each month. bioRxiv also enables authors to submit posted manuscripts directly to a growing number of journals (currently 100) for certification through peer review. New funding from CZI builds on the initial investment by CSHL (a private, not-for-profit institution) and generous philanthropic support from CSHL Trustee Robert Lourie, to pioneer this free service.
CSHL and CZI are committed to sharing new tools in order to speed adoption and dissemination of preprints and optimize communication infrastructure in science. All software developed through this collaboration will be made available as open source.
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