HighWire teams up with medRxiv to provide new preprint server

Scholarly publishing tech provider, HighWire, will support the founders of medRxiv by providing the hosting and submissions technology that underpins the new preprint server.

medRxiv (pronounced “med-archive”), is a collaboration between its founding organizations, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL), BMJ, and Yale University.

It is a free online archive and distribution service for preprints in the medical and health sciences, allowing researchers to share manuscripts before they are peer-reviewed and published in academic journals.

The server is hosted on HighWire’s JCore platform. A part of the HighWire Hosting solution, JCore provides a powerful content ingestion, enrichment and publishing infrastructure for journal websites.

BenchPress, part of the HighWire Submissions solution, integrates with JCore providing manuscript submission and management.

Its best-in-class configuration enabled the HighWire team to build a system specific for medRxiv that provides the flexibility to adjust to changes in editorial practice or peer review process.

By facilitating early dissemination of new findings medRxiv will enable authors to receive feedback that helps improve the final published article. Researchers from around the world can submit manuscripts, regardless of their organizational affiliation, and an international advisory board will oversee the service.

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