Being new to the whole subject of Science 2.0 and online social networking communities for scientists, I am taking a look today at Nature Precedings. But that brings up the matter of classification of such things.
Maybe this isn’t a social network for scientists at all, for it says on its site, “What is Nature Precedings? Nature Precedings is a permanent, citable archive for pre-publication research and preliminary findings. It is a place for researchers to share documents, including presentations, posters, white papers, technical papers, supplementary findings, and non-peer-reviewed manuscripts. It provides a rapid way to share preliminary findings, disseminate emerging results, solicit community feedback, and claim priority over discoveries. It also makes such material easy to archive, share and cite.”
And, “Nature Precedings includes materials from biology, medicine (except clinical trials), chemistry and the earth sciences … We do not include submissions in physics because there is already a service (arXiv.org) for the physical sciences.”
And, “Nature Precedings includes manuscripts, posters, and presentations, submitted in PDF, Word or PowerPoint format.”
And, “We will post submissions in all areas of chemistry, the earth sciences, and biomedicine except for clinical medicine. In particular, we cannot accept submissions describing the results of clinical trials or those making specific therapeutic claims. (More general claims, for example that a certain line of basic research may have clinical potential, are usually acceptable.)”
Whew, that was a lot of copying and pasting! But we might as well get that all established before I commence the actual writing of my own opinions in the rest of this piece.
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