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Social Science Preprints in the Age of COVID-19

Preprints can represent a number of points on the timeline of scholarly communications, be it posted before submission to a journal or archived after a paper is already published, or even as an end goal itself. In the simpler times before COVID-19, an author may have decided to post a paper to a preprint server in order to get credit for research or get comments from other researchers before ultimately submitting to a journal. They then would have submitted their research to a journal and waited several months for their paper to go through peer review.

Industry News, Author ServicesGuest UserSeptember 25, 2020peer review week, social science, preprints, COVID-19

4 Reasons You Should Engage with Preprints

New preprint servers are popping up in droves in the academic community, allowing authors to share their research, track their downloads and citations with a unique DOI, and get community feedback all before their work is peer reviewed.

Author Services, Editor's PicksKimberley SimpsonJanuary 24, 2020SAGE Advance, preprints

Three great examples of why preprints are beneficial to research

Advance: a SAGE preprints community celebrated its one year anniversary on August 31st. Since its launch, Advance has accumulated over 300 preprints, featuring research all across the humanities and social sciences. Preprints, as you may know, are early versions of a scholarly paper that haven’t been peer-reviewed. In honor of this special occasion, we would like to highlight three papers of interest that have been posted on SAGE’s own preprint server.

Industry NewsKathleen SargeantOctober 21, 2019preprints, SAGE Advance, preprint server, scholarly paper, authors

Advance and Preprints: A Year One Retrospective

August 31st marks the one year anniversary of Advance: a SAGE preprints community and, since the day we launched, preprints have continued to see tremendous growth across the scholarly community. Growth, not just in sheer volume of posted preprints, but also in the understanding of the benefits preprints can have in the scholarly community.