Scholarly publishing tech provider, HighWire, is supporting the founders of medRxiv, by providing the hosting and submissions technology that underpins the new preprint server.
medRxiv, is a collaboration between its founding organisations, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL), BMJ and Yale University. It is a free online archive and distribution service for preprints in the medical and health sciences, allowing researchers to share manuscripts before they are peer-reviewed and published in academic journals.
The server, which publishes its first articles, is hosted on HighWire’s JCore platform. A part of the HighWire Hosting solution, JCore provides a powerful content ingestion, enrichment and publishing infrastructure for journal websites. BenchPress, part of the HighWire Submissions solution, integrates with JCore providing manuscript submission and management. Its best-in-class configuration enabled the HighWire team to build a system specific for medRxiv, that provides the flexibility to adjust to changes in editorial practice or peer review process.
Both BMJ and CSHL are already long-standing individual HighWire customers. CSHL has chosen HighWire for its journal hosting requirements for many years and further partnered in 2013 to develop and launch bioRxiv, the preprint server for biology. BMJ has worked with HighWire since 2005, using HighWire’s journal platform and hosting services supporting over 70 journals.
By facilitating early dissemination of new findings medRxiv will enable authors to receive feedback that helps improve the final published article. Researchers from around the world can submit manuscripts, regardless of their organisational affiliation, and an international advisory board will oversee the service.
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