Handful of Biologists Went Rogue and Published Directly to Internet

Re:Handful of Biologists Went Rogue and Published Directly t... by timrpeterson on Tuesday March 15, 2016 @02:33PM (#11291908)

Nobel prize winning scientists can go rogue. Until these same rogues hire incoming professors based on their own biorxiv papers this is a small advance.

This whole thing needs to start at the level of the funding agency, namely NIH. Publishing in a good journal is a prerequisite to getting a grant. Try getting an R01 on a Biorxiv paper. Not gonna happen.

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Re:Handful of Biologists Went Rogue and Published Directly t... by michaelhoffman on Tuesday March 15, 2016 @06:50PM (#11293663)

Most of the pre-prints posted on bioRxiv are submitted and later accepted to a traditional journal. The authors get the best of both worlds—early dissemination of their results and still get the stamp of approval from traditional journals that many other institutions value.

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