Preparing for Preprints.

Preparation of Documents for Multiple Modes of Delivery—Notes from TUG’99

As the theme of the TUG’99 meeting concerned preparing documents for Web-based delivery, and the TEX-related tools recently developed for this purpose, it had been suggested that it would be nice to apply some of these tools to the preprints for the meeting, in order to show off the effectiveness of these tools. As no single person had the expertise in all of pdfTEX, LATEX2HTML and TEX4ht, nor the

The man-machine integration era

7 Through sensor ubiquity, the man-machine integration era is upon us. This integration is taking place in distributed, continuously changing, optimizing/learning, finite precision feedback systems. Security challenges of such systems abound, also due to constantly co-evolving threat actors and changing environments. Are we adequately preparing to defend such systems, and more importantly: how ...

Has the time come for preprints in biology?

Preprints, non-peer-reviewed drafts of manuscripts available on the Internet, have been used in conjunction with peer review and publication in journals in the physical sciences for almost 25 years. Recently, more scientists have been discussing whether preprints can play a similar role in biological and biomedical research. Here, I discuss my excitement and concerns about the role that preprin...

Matlab code for the Discrete Hankel Transform

Preprints as medium for communicating new ideas, hypotheses, data, analysis and beyond

Preprints emerged as a medium for exchanging ideas and new research data in the physics and mathematics community through the arXiv preprint server, and the phenomenon has since spread to biology and chemistry, with the promulgation of a variety of preprint servers such as PeerJ Preprints and bioRxiv. Partly as a response to the slow publication process where it could take months or even years ...