Elsevier, the information analytics business specialising in science and health, has announced that SSRN, its preprint server and early stage research platform, has launched the 'Preprints with The Lancet' - a new preprint series for sharing early stage health and medical research.
The collaboration brings together SSRN with The Lancet as part of a six-month pilot to assess whether the health and medical community are ready for this form of early research sharing.
Preprints are research papers that are at the submission stage or can be described as on-going research. By sharing online, authors widen the opportunity for receiving comments on their work by other researchers with the goal of an improved final peer-reviewed publication and for exchange of research areas with the future potential for collaboration. Preprints are primarily intended for research use; they have not been through the important steps of peer review and experienced editorial scrutiny and guidance that is part of the publishing process. All papers on 'Preprints with The Lancet' will be free to upload and download.
Authors of all research papers submitted to any Lancet family journal, will be asked at submission whether they would like their paper to be posted - as a preprint, an opt-in that all co-authors must agree to. Authors can also submit their papers through SSRN directly.
Submitted papers will be subject to SSRN's usual checks to ensure that the paper is part of the scholarly discourse, in a subject area covered by one or more of SSRN's networks. A Lancet editor will then check the paper and ensure the authors have provided a statement about the funding of the study; a summarised declaration of interests for all authors; a statement on ethics approval or why the research was exempted; and if the research is a randomised trial, confirmation that it has been prospectively registered along with the trial registration number. Once a final version of a preprint paper is peer-reviewed and published and becomes part of the scientific evidence as the version of record, authors are encouraged to link to the preprint of the published paper.
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