Pandemic brought new attention to preprints

When medRxiv, a site that hosts unpublished research manuscripts -- called preprints -- in the medical sciences launched in June 2019, things got off to a slow start. “It may take off slowly,” John Inglis, co-founder of the server and executive director of the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press, told Science at the time. For the first few months of its existence, that was true. “Medicine was a more conservative discipline,” Inglis, who is also a co-founder of a preprint server for...