Cascading Workflows and Preprints

Abstract

SPEAKERS: Tony Alves Senior Vice President of Product Management HighWire Press Hopedale, Massachusetts Allison Leung Manager, Product Development American Chemical Society Washington, DC Sven Molter Senior Product Manager Public Library of Science Charlottesville, Virginia REPORTER: Natalie Ngo Managing Editor, CJASN American Society of Nephrology Washington, DC https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3908-7353 The world of preprints and preprint servers is continuously evolving to meet the needs of researchers, offering new services and pathways tied to traditional journal publishing. Some preprint servers are now utilizing artificial intelligence tools that provide language editing, image manipulation checks, and reference formatting for added quality assurance. With these integrations and the ease of online discovery, preprints are a viable source of new scholarship. Many journals have adopted formalized pathways for authors to transfer their work from a preprint server to a journal submission site. However, it is becoming increasingly common for journals to allow authors to transfer their submitted manuscripts to a preprint server. In this session, three industry professionals discuss models and workflows for preprint transfers. Tony Alves, Senior Vice President of Product Management at HighWire Press, began by providing an overview of the Manuscript Exchange Common Approach (MECA)1 and its role in facilitating transfers. MECA, a National Information Standards Organization (NISO)-recommended practice, is a documented methodology describing how a software system should structure, assemble, and transmit files in a package “for transferring research articles from one system to another, so that the different systems don’t have to develop multiple pairwise solutions each and every time a system […]