Nature Precedings

by tzvicky

The Nature journal opened Nature Precedings (link), a service similar to arxiv.org, where scientists can submit pre-publication works. They “welcome high-quality contributions from biology, medicine (except clinical trials), chemistry and the earth sciences.” So now we (chemists) have a place to submit early drafts of our work. Papers are published under Creative Commons Attribution License. And just like in arxiv.org, submissions are not peer-reviewed but editors decide if they fulfilled some general criteria. The service was discussed even on Slashdot (link).

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