List of major preprints servers - where to go

The most well-known preprint server is probably arXiv (pronounced like ‘archive’). It started as a server for preprints in physics and has since expanded out to various subjects, including mathematics, computer science, and economics. The arXiv server is now run by the Cornell University Library and contains 1.37 million preprints so far.

The Open Science Framework provides an open-source framework to help researchers and institutions set up their own preprint servers. One such example is SocArXiv for the Social Sciences. On their website, you can browse more than 2 million preprints, including preprints on arXiv, and many of them have their own preprint digital object identifier (DOI). In cases where the preprint has now been published it also links to the publication’s DOI.

Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory set up bioaRxiv, a preprint server for Biology in 2013 to complement arXiv. The bioaRxiv server has a direct transfer service to several journals such as Science and PNAS and a bit over 60% of papers in bioaRxiv end up published in peer-reviewed journals.

In more recent years a lot of new servers have popped up covering almost every field including the social sciences, arts, and humanities fields. Here’s a quick overview of some of the rest:

arXiv -> Mathematics, Computer science, and economics, Physics
EngrXiv - Engineering
ChemRxiv - Chemical sciences
PsyArXiv - Psychological sciences
SportaRxiv - Sport and exercise science
PaleoarXiv - Paleontology
LawArXiv - Law
AgriXiv - Agricultural sciences
NutriXiv - Nutritional sciences
MarXiv - Ocean and marine-climate sciences
EarthArXiv - Earth sciences
Preprints.org - Arts & Humanities, Behavioral Sciences, Biology, Chemistry, Earth Sciences, Engineering, Life Sciences, Materials Science, Mathematics & Computer Science, Medicine &, Pharmacology, Physical Sciences, Social Sciences

Adding CITATION to your R package

Original post from Robin's Blog:

Software is very important in science – but good software takes time and effort that could be used to do other work instead. I believe that it is important to do this work – but to make it worthwhile, people need to get credit for their work, and in academia that means citations. However, it is often very difficult to find out how to cite a piece of software – sometimes it is hidden away somewhere in the manual or on the web-page, but often it requires sending an email to the author asking them how they want it cited. The effort that this requires means that many people don’t bother to cite the software they use, and thus the authors don’t get the credit that they need. We need to change this, so that software – which underlies a huge amount of important scientific work – gets the recognition it deserves.