Maximizing the Impact of Your Preprint
We're excited to share some tips and tricks to help you prepare to make the most of your preprint submissions on the Open Science Framework (OSF). Specifically, we’re focusing on what you need to prepare your preprint to maximize its impact. This week we are releasing an update to our preprint submission process with new features to enhance your experience. This new update will streamline our preprint submission interface while keeping key features of previous preprint submissions. Let's dive into what you need to prepare for your next print submission!
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1. Choose a Preprint Service to Share With Your Community of Researchers OSF Preprints partners with various preprint services like PsyArXiv, SocArXiv, LawArXiv, and Thesis Commons to support preprint sharing across different disciplines. Select the preprint service that best fits your topic and the community you aim to reach. If there isn’t a community-driven preprint service for your discipline, OSF Preprints is available for any discipline.
2. Get Permission From and Identify All Authors Ensure you have permission from all authors to share the preprint. By posting a preprint, you confirm that all authors agree to share it and that you have the right to do so. Communicate with your co-authors about sharing your article as a preprint. All authors can associate an ORCID iD with their OSF account, which will also be included in preprint metadata.
3. Prepare Your Preprint File Ensure your preprint is in an easily accessible file format. Preprints are part of the scholarly record and even if withdrawn the metadata of the preprint will be available.
4. Prepare Supplemental Materials Or DOI’s to Peer Review Publications The availability of public data increase transparency and make it easier for readers to find the underlying data. Gather DOIs or persistent links to any data used in your preprint to provide along with the preprint. You also have the ability to add a Digital Object Identifier (DOI), publication date, and publication citation to a peer review version of the pre publication both before and after the submission. This allows more connected pathways to find both your preprint and peer reviewed publication.
5. Choose Disciplines Decide which discipline(s) best fit your preprint. Adding at least one top-level discipline is required, and you can add more specific subdisciplines. The disciplines and subdisciplines available vary by preprint server.
6. Decide on Licensing It's important to choose the appropriate license to apply to your preprint in order to communicate how you want others to share your work. That said, it's not required to license your preprint.
7. Write the Abstract An abstract is included in your metadata and will help give an enticing summary of your work. You can type it directly or copy and paste it into the textbox during the upload process. Note that uploading an abstract as a file is not supported.
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Remember: Review Your Submission Before any submission on our preprint services you wil have the chance to review all of the materials you have submitted. This is a chance for you to finalize your work and is often where last minute mistakes are caught!
We hope these tips and new features help you prepare your preprint for maximum impact. If you have any questions or need further assistance, feel free to reach out to our support team. |