Abstract
The American Chemical Society announced earlier this month that it will create a chemistry preprint server to promote sharing of early scientific results. Preprint servers allow researchers to circulate draft papers or preliminary data online to get feedback from the larger community before a paper goes through a journal’s more formal peer review process. “A preprint server dedicated to chemists will help speed the dissemination of research results, solicit valuable feedback, and foster international collaboration,” says Kevin Davies, a vice president in ACS’s Publications Division who is spearheading the effort. The details of how the preprint server, tentatively called ChemRxiv, might work have not yet been decided. It will be a joint undertaking between two of ACS’s divisions, CAS and Publications, but ACS is seeking outside collaborators to join in its development. Preprint servers have been popular in physics and computer science for more than 20 years. ArXiv, a large
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