Getting visibility for your scientific work is important. Fortunately, the landscape of scientific publication is changing. View this presentation on the brave new world of scientific communication by Dr. Martin Zand, Co-Director of the University of Rochester Clinical and Translational Science Institute. Learn about preprint servers, post-publication review, and the new ecosystem of tools to prepare your work for high quality online posting. Do you pre-print?

6. What is a pre-print?
Pre-print: "In academic publishing, a preprint is a version of a scholarly or scientific paper that precedes
formal peer review and publication in a peer-reviewed scholarly or scientific journal. The
preprint may be available, often as a non-typeset version available free, before and/or after
a paper is published in a journal."
Post-print: "A post-print is an article which has been peer reviewed in preparation for publication in a
journal. The post print may also be available as a non-typeset version before and/or after a
paper is published in a journal. Thus, the post-print may differ from the final published ver-
sion of an article."
PMC-print: A post-print that is available on PubMed Central. All NIH funded publications are required to
have post-prints deposited at PMC. You can lose your grant funding if you do not do this.
e-print: Together, both pre-prints and post-prints are technically called e-prints.
Re-print: A copy of the final, published, peer-reviewed article.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Preprint and PubMed Central

8. Pros Cons
Speed: Gets your work out there fast. Usually
posted within 48 hours of submission
to the pre-print server. Some argue
that this "stakes your claim" and
prevents you from being scooped.
Reporting: Shows that you have accomplished
something. NIH accepts preprint
citations in grant progress reports.
Can be useful for showing prospective
post-doctoral fellowships or when
applying for a job
Feedback: Get feedback on your work from the
scientific community (~10% of the
time)
It's on you: You are responsible for catching all of
those errors, omissions, typos, lack of
experimental controls,bad references,
and other potential bloopers, large
and small.
Exclusion: Some journals do not permit preprints,
so check before you post. It could
disqualify you from submitting to your
favorite high impact journal.
Harm: If you are posting a medical finding
that people might use (medical,
lay public), and it has unintended
consequences, you might harm
somebody. Also true if your
experiments have serious flaws and
somebody tries to repeat them.

9. When did pre-prints become a thing?
http://www.prepubmed.org/monthly_stats/

13. bioRxiv posting to peer-review publication

14. Preprint to Published: A Long, Long Journey
Submitted September 2017
Preprint Posted December 2017
4 sets of revisions, Appeal of Rejection, Multiple Technical Corrections
Accepted October 2018
In Print November 2018

16. Preprint to Fellowship

17. How do I get my preprint to look professional ?
versus

18. Learn LaTeX and use Overleaf
Free: An account costs you nothing
Templates: Lots of templates for preprints
and journals
How-To: Great online documentation for
LaTeX and Overleaf, including online
communities to ask questions.
You will have to learn how to "code" your
manuscript: But it's not that hard, and it
will probably take you only a few hours
for most things
Not like Word: Say goodbye to and figures
and tables that move around
Bibliographic support: Uses bibtex
format. Integrated with Mendeley,
Zotero, and CiteUlike. Easy work around
with Endnote.

19. Latex: A typesetting language
https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/LaTeX

21. Get R - and learn how to use it
Free: R and RStudio cost you nothing
Learn it: You will need to learn how to
code. Excel and Prism are sooooo last
century... You can do it!
Templates: Lots of templates for pretty
much any statistical analysis or plot that
you can think of or have seen.
How-To: There is a lot of online
documentation for R, including a
really active online community to ask
questions, and many R boot camps too.
Best way to learn is just to dive in and
try to plot your data.

22. LaTeX documents use the BibTex bibliography system

24. The next wave: Post-publication review ecosystems
Fast-ish: Your submitted manuscript is
posted as a pre-print while under review.
It's marked "not peer reviewed" during this
time. Peer review can take time.
DIY Reviewer Selection: You have to come
up with reviewer suggestions. Some
journals have a list of published authors
that can be used to choose reviewers.
Otherwise, you will need to suggest
appropriate reviewers.
Not free: You pay a publication charge.
Open review: Your reviewers are not
anonymous, and both their comments and
your responses are public.
Indexed after accepted: Once you have
reviews, the manuscript can be "accepted"
as peer reviewed. Then you get indexed
on PubMed, Google Scholar, etc.

25. Overleaf to pre-print to peer review publication

26. Post-submission peer review publication

28. Preprints help you get credit
Digital Object Identifier (doi)
Uniquely identifies your work,
figures, images, data..
ORCID ID
Uniquely identifies you

31. Kit up before you venture out into the wild...
Overleaf: Get a free account and start with some templates. Get your advisor to
upgrade your account (or do it yourself) so you can have more collaborators,
folders, sync with Dropbox and Github, submit papers directly to journals.
Essential tool!!
LaTeX: Find the online documentation and discussion forums. Likely any question
you have will have been asked by somebody else. Also find the online LaTeX table
maker sites (tables are a pain).
R: You need to learn R. It will allow you to make great, publication ready statistical
graphics from your data. It's also free. Consider taking the R boot camp.
Acrobat Pro: You will want to get Adobe Acrobat Pro. It will let you convert your
PDF documents from Overleaf into Word documents (does a pretty good job), so
people can comment on them when you pass them around for internal review.
Mendeley: Get some bibliography software (Endnote, Bibdesk, Mendeley) and learn
how to use it with your writing system.
ORCID ID: Get an ORCID ID. It's free, the Library will help you do this if you want,
and it uniquely identifies you, even if your name changes or your are one of 10,000
Susan Smiths publishing in science.

32. Promote your work...carefully
Don't oversell your findings
Get your preprints peer reviewed