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preLighters at the joint BSCB/BSDB 2019 meeting in Warwick

Many preLighters, both from Europe and overseas, took part at the joint meeting of the British Society for Developmental Biology and Cell Biology. We were especially proud that preLighters were among the award winners for the best poster prize. Congratulations to all!   [caption id="attachment_10781" align="alignnone" width="600"] (From left to…


Posted on 12 April 2019

Survey on the credibility of preprints by COS

The Center for Open Science is seeking graduate students, post docs, researchers and academic faculty to participate in survey to investigate the factors that affect the perceived credibility and use of preprints. Participation in this study involves: ● A time commitment of up to 20 minutes. ● Survey involving your…


Posted on 2 April 2019

preLighter Teresa Rayon gives a talk at event on preprints and science news

Earlier this month, Open Research London and the Open Access team at The Francis Crick Institute organized a symposium with the title: Preprints and Science news: how can they co-exist? Among the four invited speakers of the evening was preLighter Teresa Rayon (who is a postdoc in James Briscoe's lab).…


Posted on 27 February 2019

Celebrating preLights’ first Birthday

preLights, the preprint highlighting service hosted by The Company of Biologists launched one year ago.   Some of the numbers and highlights from the first year: we have over 100 preLighters we've posted 325 preLights articles the preLighter community has actively advocated for preprints beyond writing highlight posts (e.g. giving…


Posted on 20 February 2019

The most read preLights in 2018

A big thanks to all of you following preLights this year! We were excited to launch in February, are thrilled that the service is building momentum, and are looking forward to introducing new features and preLighters in 2019! Looking back at 260 posts, these were our most viewed:   #1…


Posted on 31 December 2018

preLights at SpotOn London

We were really happy to talk at SpotOn London about our fantastic preLights community and the work they are doing to promote preprints and help scientists by highlighting preprints for them. Our presentation was in the panel 'Open research in practice' where we also heard about other exciting initiatives that…


Posted on 5 November 2018