When a Preprint Becomes the Final Paper. Singh Chawla, D. Nature, January, 2017.
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A geneticist's decision not to publish his finalized preprint in a journal gets support from scientists online. [Excerpt] Preprint papers posted on servers such as arXiv and bioRxiv are designed to get research results out for discussion before they are formally peer reviewed and published in journals. But for some scientists, the term is now a misnomer – their preprint papers will never be submitted for formal publication. [...] One of the major services of traditional journals is that papers are peer reviewed before publication, allowing authors to make changes in response to referees' comments. Increasingly, some preprint advocates suggest that readers informally peer reviewing papers after they are posted – a form of post-publication peer review – can substitute for this. [...] Independent data scientist Jordan Anaya, who has developed a search engine for preprints called PrePubMed, tweeted that as more final version preprints appear, there will need to be an easy way to show online which ones are actually final papers. [...]
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  title = {When a Preprint Becomes the Final Paper},
  author = {Singh Chawla, Dalmeet},
  year = {2017},
  month = jan,
  issn = {1476-4687},
  doi = {10.1038/nature.2017.21333},
  abstract = {A geneticist's decision not to publish his finalized preprint in a journal gets support from scientists online.

[Excerpt] Preprint papers posted on servers such as arXiv and bioRxiv are designed to get research results out for discussion before they are formally peer reviewed and published in journals. But for some scientists, the term is now a misnomer -- their preprint papers will never be submitted for formal publication. [...] One of the major services of traditional journals is that papers are peer reviewed before publication, allowing authors to make changes in response to referees' comments. Increasingly, some preprint advocates suggest that readers informally peer reviewing papers after they are posted -- a form of post-publication peer review -- can substitute for this. [...] Independent data scientist Jordan Anaya, who has developed a search engine for preprints called PrePubMed, tweeted that as more final version preprints appear, there will need to be an easy way to show online which ones are actually final papers. [...]},
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