A Guide to Posting and Managing Preprints
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2021-04-01
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Posting preprints online allows psychological scientists to get feedback, speed dissemination, and ensure public access to their work. This guide is designed to help psychological scientists post preprints and manage them across the publication pipeline. We review terminology, provide a historical and legal overview of preprints, and give guidance on posting and managing preprints before, during, or after the peer-review process to achieve different aims (e.g., get feedback, speed dissemination, achieve open access). We offer concrete recommendations to authors, such as post preprints that are complete and carefully proofread; post preprints in a dedicated preprint server that assigns DOIs, provides editable metadata, is indexed by GoogleScholar, supports review and endorsements, and supports version control; include a draft date and information about the paper?s status on the cover page; license preprints with CC BY licenses that permit public use with attribution; and keep preprints up to date after major revisions. Although our focus is on preprints (unpublished versions of a work), we also offer information relevant to postprints (author-formatted, post-peer-review versions of a work) and work that will not otherwise be published (e.g., theses and dissertations).
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Moshontz, H, G Binion, H Walton, BT Brown and M Syed (2021). A Guide to Posting and Managing Preprints. Advances in Methods and Practices in Psychological Science, 4(2). p. 25152459211019948. 10.1177/25152459211019948 Retrieved from https://hdl.handle.net/10161/23584.
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M.S. Library and Information Science, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (2014)
B.A. History & American Studies, The State University of New York at Buffalo (2012)
As Librarian for History, Haley curates the library collections of primary and secondary sources on topics in intersectional history, including United States and military history, the history of science and technology, and world history, in collaboration with Global Studies. She provides one-on-one research consultations with students and faculty and visits undergraduate and graduate classrooms to share library resources, information, and research strategies.
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