NIH Preprint Pilot: A Librarian's Toolkit
| Title | Date | Runtime | Format |
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| NIH Preprint Pilot Summary of pilot scope, timeline, and implementation. | April 5, 2023 | N/A | HTML / Page |
| General Pilot FAQs A look at some of the details of pilot implementation, such as inclusion in PubMed, and search strategies. | Feb. 22, 2023 | N/A | HTML / Page |
| The NIH Preprint Pilot: A New Experiment for a New Era Announcement of pilot from NLM Director’s blog, Musings on the Mezzanine. | June 9, 2020 | N/A | HTML / Page |
| NIH Preprint Pilot Accelerates and Expands Discovery of Research Results An announcement of the pilot’s expansion from 2023. | Dec. 14, 2022 | N/A | HTML / Page |
| Title | Date | Runtime | Format |
|---|---|---|---|
| Reporting Preprints and Other Interim Research Products Guidance on citing preprints in applications, claiming as products of award, and posting preprints, including considerations in selecting preprint repositories. | March 24, 2017 | N/A | HTML / Page |
| NIH Investigators FAQs Overview of NIH guidance on sharing preprints, how to add to My Bibliography, and applicability of NIH Public Access Policy. | Feb. 22, 2023 | N/A | HTML / Page |
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| NLM Office Hours: PubMed Central (March 2022) On March 25, 2022, the National Library of Medicine and the Network of the National Library of Medicine hosted NLM Office Hours: PubMed Central. It includes a conversation with PubMed Central product staff about the new PMC interface, NIH public access policy compliance, and preprints. | April 4, 2022 | 45 min(s) | HTML / Webinar Source Page |
| Preprints: Accelerating Research (Tutorial) What are preprints, and how are they changing how biomedical research results are shared? Should you use information from preprints? Should you share your own research results in a preprint? This 1-hour online, self-paced course from the National Library of Medicine for researchers, librarians, and others explains the basics of preprints, and explores the benefits and considerations of using and submitting preprints. | Nov. 16, 2024 | 60 min(s) | HTML / Tutorial |
| Add Preprint Citations in My Bibliography Demonstrates how to add preprint citations to My Bibliography. | Jan. 27, 2021 | 3 min(s) | MP4 Video / YouTube Video |
| Title | Date | Runtime | Format |
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| Preprints: Their Evolving Role In Science Communication (E-book) This briefing discusses the history and role of preprints in the biological sciences within the evolving open science landscape. The focus is on the explosive growth of preprints as a publishing model and the associated challenges of maintaining technical infrastructure and establishing sustainable business models. | Jan. 1, 2022 | N/A | HTML / Page |
Guides
| Title | Date | Runtime | Format |
|---|---|---|---|
| A Guide to Preprinting for Early-Career Researchers | Sept. 23, 2024 | N/A | HTML / Page |
| A Practical Guide to Preprints: Accelerating Scholarly Communication | Oct. 9, 2024 | N/A | HTML / Page |
| Know the Science: 9 Questions To Help You Make Sense of Health Research | Aug. 22, 2024 | N/A | HTML / Page |
| Making Effective Use of Preprints: Tips for Communicators | Aug. 22, 2024 | N/A | HTML / Page |
FAQs
| Title | Date | Runtime | Format |
|---|---|---|---|
| Preprints in Europe PMC | July 1, 2024 | N/A | HTML / Site |
| ASAPbio Preprint FAQ | Aug. 27, 2024 | N/A | HTML / Help Page or FAQ |
Recommendations
| Title | Date | Runtime | Format |
|---|---|---|---|
| Building trust in preprints: recommendations for servers and other stakeholders | Aug. 22, 2024 | N/A | HTML / Page |
| Title | Date | Runtime | Format |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sciety A tool enabling networks of scholars to share their discovery, evaluation and organization of preprints. | Jan. 1, 2023 | N/A | HTML / Site |
| open policy finder Helping authors and institutions to make informed and confident decisions in open access publication and compliance. Formerly Sherpa services. | Nov. 4, 2024 | N/A | HTML / Page |
| preLights A team of scientists regularly review, highlight and comment on preprints they feel are of interest to the biological community. | Oct. 7, 2024 | N/A | HTML / Page |
| PREreview A platform for the crowdsourcing of preprint reviews. | Oct. 8, 2024 | N/A | HTML / Site |
| Peer Community In A free recommendation process of scientific preprints based on peer-reviews. | June 27, 2024 | N/A | HTML / Page |
| PubPeer An online Journal club | Oct. 8, 2024 | N/A | HTML / Page |
| Review Commons Independent peer review before journal submission. | Oct. 1, 2024 | N/A | HTML / Page |
| Title | Date | Runtime | Format |
|---|---|---|---|
| Phase 1 of the NIH Preprint Pilot: Testing the viability of making preprints discoverable in PubMed Central and PubMed This preprint article reports on phase 1 of the NIH Preprint Pilot. | Dec. 23, 2022 | N/A | HTML / Page |
| Title | Date | Runtime | Format |
|---|---|---|---|
| Preprints: Accelerating Research (SCORM package) What are preprints, and how are they changing how biomedical research results are shared? Should you use information from preprints? Should you share your own research results in a preprint? This 1-hour online, self-paced course from the National Library of Medicine for researchers, librarians, and others explains the basics of preprints, and explores the benefits and considerations of using and submitting preprints. | Nov. 16, 2024 | 60 min(s) | ZIP / SCORM Package |