Preprints in Motion

Our 2 year birthday! The fascinating (and longer than you think) history of preprint servers with Matthew Cobb

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It’s our 2 year birthday this month! To celebrate we take a trip back to the past and discuss the history of preprint servers with Matthew Cobb, a Professor at the University of Manchester. 

Find Matthew’s BBC podcast for more about the great science publishing scandal https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0004l7k

If you want to learn more about the prehistory of preprint servers you can read the full article here https://journals.plos.org/plosbiology/article?id=10.1371/journal.pbio.2003995

This episode was produced by Jonny Coates and edited by Camila Valenzuela. 

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