A How‐To on How to Publish a Preprint

Since the early 1990s the practice of preprinting and distributing manuscripts on the Internet prior to peer review and publication has been common in the laboratory sciences. According to Abbasi the practice of distributing pre-printed manuscripts has taken place in the biological sciences since the 1960s. More recently, principally in the past decade, pre-printing of manuscripts has spread to other fields and a practice, once frowned on by publishers and many in the academic community, has become accepted, encouraged, and even considered good practice in academic circles. Moreover, it is being enabled by some leading publishers such as Wiley.