Do we need journals and things like that? Can we just throw everything on the archive, and then science is open and there for everyone? I mein no. It's nt goingto work in biology or malaco biology or something. But for mathematics, it seems eminently feasible to throw up. At has happened in the past, right? There's te famous case with the pert perilman, gregory perilman. He'd solved it, put the proof up on archive. Was not interested in publishing i any official journal. Just saidit's on archive. Make of it what you will.
In this first episode of Nature's Take, we get four of Nature's staff around microphones to get their expert take on preprints. These pre-peer-review open access articles have spiked in number over recent years and have cemented themselves as an integral part of scientific publishing. But this has not been without its issues.
In this discussion we cover a lot of ground. Amongst other things, we ask whether preprints could help democratise science or contribute to a loss of trust in scientists. We pick apart the relationship between preprints and peer-reviewed journals and tackle some common misconceptions. We ask how preprints have been used by different fields and how the pandemic has changed the game. And as we look to the future, we ask how preprints fit into the discussion around open access and even if they could do away with journals all together.
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