Nature's Take: what's next for the preprint revolution
Nature Podcast
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4.5 • 893 Ratings
🗓️ 15 August 2022
⏱️ 27 minutes
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In this first episode of Nature's Take, we get four of Nature's staff around microphones to get their expert take on preprints. These pre-peer-review open access articles have spiked in number over recent years and have cemented themselves as an integral part of scientific publishing. But this has not been without its issues.
In this discussion we cover a lot of ground. Amongst other things, we ask whether preprints could help democratise science or contribute to a loss of trust in scientists. We pick apart the relationship between preprints and peer-reviewed journals and tackle some common misconceptions. We ask how preprints have been used by different fields and how the pandemic has changed the game. And as we look to the future, we ask how preprints fit into the discussion around open access and even if they could do away with journals all together.
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| 1:02.4 | Welcome to Nature's Take, a new series from Nature. |
| 1:06.7 | Over the years, we often get requests for us to dive deeper into topics. |
| 1:11.0 | In other words, analysis of the topics in science that matter to you. |
| 1:15.2 | Well, we've heard you, and that is what we're hoping to do with nature's take. |
| 1:19.6 | In each episode, we are going to pull in some of nature's finest into one room |
| 1:24.1 | and take on a big topic and see where the discussion leads us. For the first |
| 1:29.1 | episode, we're talking about pre-prints. Now, these pre-peer-review open access articles have become |
| 1:34.9 | much more common during the pandemic, sometimes for better or worse. Nature as well has been |
| 1:40.6 | increasingly using them in our reporting, and that has even led to emails from |
| 1:44.7 | people being critical of our use of them. Regardless, they've become an integral part of |
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