An interesting online seminar
Preprints: A New Way to Publish Your Research Results
Presented by
- Michael Magoulias, Director of Operations and Product Fulfillment, Elsevier SSRN
- Dr. Rui Dai, Senior research director at Wharton Research Data Services\
Preprints are a rapidly growing piece of scholarly communication. Compared with traditional academic papers, preprints allow fast publication and instant citation of research results. As a complement to journal publication, they allow the research community to share information or research results, provide the direction of development for research, and help facilitate international and interdisciplinary collaboration. Preprints are also a positive way for early-career researchers to receive feedback ahead of submitting articles to journals. As evidence mounts on their importance, we’re seeing preprints increasingly included in formal evaluation processes for grant proposals and faculty reviews. In recent years there has seen a surge in use and need for preprints in the research community. SSRN data shows that the fastest growing disciplines over the last year on its platforms were in economics and medical research. The rapid rise in medical research preprints has helped play a crucial part in advancing and accelerating understanding of SARS-CoV-2. SSRN is an open access online preprint community. A searchable online library, it enables authors to post their papers and abstracts easily and free of charge providing an online database of early scholarly research. With over 2.2 million users, it lists 806,000 full-text documents and an additional 134,000 abstracts. Elsevier data reveals that over the last five years, there has been a 148% increase in the number of researchers publishing preprints on SSRN. There has also been a 50% increase in the number of downloads of preprints on SSRN over the same period with downloads hitting 17.9 million at the end of 2020.
The session will cover in detail: Michael Magoulias, SSRN Overview of preprints in the scientific communication landscape What is the main purpose and who are the key players? Deep Dive into SSRN as an example that covers the widest number of disciplines How to submit a paper? What happens to a paper after submission? How is accessibility maximized by the platform? What metrics are available to demonstrate impact? Overview of APAC policies on preprints Thoughts about future development and relationship between preprints and peer review
Dr. Rui Dai, Wharton Research Data Services What are the benefits of using preprint server? Why are researchers using them in disciplines such as economics and finance? What should you consider before you post a preprint? How does a preprint relate to a journal publication? Analysis of research posted on preprint server SSRN Join this webinar to learn and discuss how SSRN, the world’s most interdisciplinary early research platform, benefits researchers by improving the discoverability of the pre-print content. This makes it easier for researchers to identify potential collaboration partners, read and assess another researcher’s most recent work, and demonstrate impact to funders through early forms of scholarly output. It can inform decision-making and serve as an effective repository for demonstrating your organization’s expertise to an international community of thought-leaders and policymakers.
