Upcoming changes to the publication process at Gates Open Research
| 30 July, 2024 | Jack Nash |
How you submit your work to Gates Open Research is changing. From August 6th, 2024, research submitted to Gates Open Research will need to be published as a preprint on VeriXiv prior to publication. This will allow authors to comply with the updated Gates Foundation Open Access Policy that requires funded researchers to publish their work as a preprint from January 1st, 2025.
What is VeriXiv?
VeriXiv is a new preprint server built in collaboration with the Gates Foundation, with enhanced prepublication checks to verify preprints prior to publication and seeks to address concerns about the research integrity of preprints whilst still enabling the rapid availability of research. The prepublication check processes assess a range of issues, including similarity concerns, image manipulation and competing interests. Once passed, the submission will then be accepted and published on VeriXiv.
In addition to the required prepublication checks, authors are given the opportunity to further verify their preprint as an open research preprint through a series of open research transparency checks, including data deposition in an open repository and clear methods for research reproducibility. Each submission will need to have passed more than twenty different ethics and integrity checks before being published on VeriXiv. Preprints will be clearly labelled to identify the level of verification they have achieved.
What are the changes to the publication process?
Previously, articles submitted to Gates Open Research would be published after they were accepted on the platform. Now, all articles submitted to Gates Open Research will be accepted on VeriXiv first, as long as the article passes the series of required prepublication checks to ensure the articles comply with Gates Open Research’s policies and ethical guidelines, as well as demonstrating originality and readability.
Once accepted, the submission is published as a preprint on VeriXiv. The peer review process then begins, and experts are invited by the in-house F1000 editorial team to review the submission for publication on Gates Open Research. The peer review process is transparent, with all review reports, reviewer details and author responses published alongside the submission, which remains on VeriXiv regardless of the peer review outcome.
Upon passing the peer review process on VeriXiv, the article will be transferred to Gates Open Research, and clearly signposted that it has passed open research checks and peer review on VeriXiv. As the final version-of-record publication venue, articles published on Gates Open Research will be indexed in Scopus, PubMed and other bibliographic databases. All published articles on VeriXiv and Gates Open Research are also included in Google Scholar, irrespective of peer review status. This final version of record on Gates Open Research links to the previous versions on VeriXiv, showing the article’s development over time.
Visit the Gates Open Research website to find out more about the new processes, and VeriXiv, the new verified preprint server for Gates Foundation funded researchers.
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