Abstract
The American Chemical Society announced in August its intention to start a chemistry preprint server called ChemRxiv. ACS is currently seeking partners to help launch the server, likely sometime in 2017. Preprint servers promote the sharing of draft research papers and preliminary data before they go through a journal’s more formal peer review process. The chemistry community is a latecomer to the preprint server business. The physics and computer science communities have used arXiv for more than 20 years. Nature Chemistry chief editor Stuart Cantrill isn’t sure chemists want to put their work online early. Even if they do, “I’m not convinced an ACS-branded server will appeal to all,” Cantrill said when the announcement was made. “A cross-publisher initiative that includes the likes of the Royal Society of Chemistry and other chem-heavy publishers would probably be a better bet.” Previous attempts to start a chemistry preprint server failed, largely because
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