Upcoming Maintenance on Preprints.org – June 14, 2025
Dear Preprints.org Users,
We would like to inform you of a scheduled maintenance activity that may temporarily affect the availability of our services.
On Saturday, June 14, 2025, starting at 10:00 AM Central European Summer Time (CEST), we will be carrying out essential infrastructure upgrades. During this time, Preprints.org may experience brief interruptions in service, lasting only a few minutes. The maintenance window is expected to end by 11:00 AM CEST.
For your convenience, here are the corresponding times in other common time zones:
UTC: June 14, 2025, from 08:00 to 09:00 AM;
EST (US/Canada): June 14, 2025, from 4:00 to 5:00 AM;
PST (US/Canada): June 14, 2025, from 1:00 to 2:00 AM;
CST (China Standard Time): June 14, 2025, from 4:00 to 5:00 PM.
We appreciate your patience and understanding as we continue to enhance the stability and performance of our platform.
Since reaching 80,000 preprints in October 2024, we have published an additional 20,000 in just 8 months. Not only that, but we’ve continued to improve our platform to better serve authors and readers. Here are some of the changes that we’ve made in the last few months.
Website Upgrade: At the end of last year (November 12, 2024), we upgraded the website with a fresh user interface, mobile responsiveness, enhanced search functionality, and improved security. If you’re curious about these changes and want to learn a bit more about them, we refer you to the announcement.
New Social Media Presence: With the continuous changes in the internet landscape, on March 26, 2025, Preprints.org joined Bluesky! On this platform, we hope to better engage with the global research community, share cutting-edge preprints, and promote open discussions that drive scientific progress.
Reading List Feature: On April 23, 2025, we unveiled the new Reading List feature. It’s a dynamic tool for curating and sharing personalized preprint collections in real time. These lists can be favorited by readers, offering a simple yet impactful way to organize research and amplify visibility. Not only that, but these lists can also be shared, allowing interested readers to further participate in the dissemination of research.
World Book Day Events: Also in April, we celebrated World Book Day. As part of our celebration, we hosted the Preprint Reading Marathon and Reader’s Choice events, encouraging users to build and share preprint collections to foster research discovery and collaboration.
Looking ahead: Building a stronger community—author interviews now open
Reaching 100,000 preprints is more than just a milestone. It is the start of an exciting new chapter. At Preprints.org, we are committed to growing alongside our community, continuously enhancing our platform to support research dissemination, collaboration, and scientific communication.
As part of our mission, we are preparing a new program, “Researcher Voices”, to spotlight the researchers behind the work. We are inviting authors to share their research journeys, motivations, and insights through short interviews.
Interested in being featured? We would love to hear from you!
Fill out this short form to tell us about yourself, your research, and your preferred interview format. Selected interviews will be published on our blog and promoted across our social media channels, helping your voice reach a wider audience.
Join the community
We are thrilled to have a great community of contributors, authors, readers, and more. Because of them, we’ve been able to achieve this major Preprints.org milestone.
“Preprints.org is an open, accessible platform for researchers to share findings early and for readers to discover cutting-edge research,”
— Lloyd Shu, Product Manager of Preprints.org
Maybe you are looking to share your research or spark new ideas. Perhaps you simply want to explore new topics. We welcome you to join the Preprints.org community by submitting your work or simply reading preprints on the platform.
Thanks for helping us reach this Preprints milestone
To the global research community, our authors, readers, Advisory Board Members, screeners, and everyone else, thank you. Every submission, download, feedback, and suggestion has helped in shaping Preprints.org into the platform that it is. We are thrilled to be actively contributing to open science. And will continue to eliminate the boundaries of knowledge and accelerate the dissemination of research.
Together, we aim to enrich the feedback loop for scholarly work and drive impactful change across the global research community.
Empowering Researchers Through Open Feedback
This partnership puts researchers first. Here’s what you can expect:
Expert Insights Early:
Access expert feedback during the early stages of your research process, allowing you to refine your work before formal submission—accelerating improvements and fostering innovation.
Global Community Engagement:
Connect with PREreview’s diverse network of reviewers for rapid insights that bypass delays in traditional peer review.
Enhanced Academic Visibility
Play a pivotal role in advancing open science by using your expertise to support fellow researchers. Every review receives a DOI and can be linked to your ORCID profile, ensuring proper credit for your contributions.
Simplified Workflow:
Enjoy a simplified workflow—from preprint submission to receiving community feedback—backed by the COAR Notify protocol for seamless notifications.
This integration bridges the gap between sharing your work and improving it, all within a supportive, open framework.
How It Works: Feedback in Three Simple Steps
Request feedback in 3 easy steps on Preprints.org with PREreview
Submit Your Preprint: Upload your manuscript on Preprints.org.
Click “PREreview Request”: Once your preprint is online, click the “PREreview Request” button.
Get Notified: Receive an email notification as soon as feedback is available.
Note: Feedback timing varies with community participation, but any feedback provided will be promptly delivered to your inbox.
Powered by the COAR Notify protocol, this feature ensures smooth communication. All PREreviews are published via Zenodo with a DOI and CC BY 4.0 license, making them citable contributions.
Voices from Us: A Shared Vision for Open Science
Our teams at Preprints.org and PREreview share a common vision for advancing open science:
Lloyd Shu, the Product Manager of Preprints.org:
“Open platforms are the foundation of scientific progress. Partnering with PREreview amplifies our commitment to transparent, inclusive collaboration—ensuring feedback reaches authors faster and fosters innovation.”
Daniela Saderi, PhD, Co-founder and Executive Director of PREreview:
“We build human-centric workflows to make peer feedback kinder and more constructive. Connecting Preprints.org authors with our global network accelerates open dialogue, where diverse expertise—not just credentials—shapes impactful research.”
Elevating Research Through Community-Driven Feedback
PREreview empowers anyone with an ORCID iD to provide structured or full-length reviews, covering 29 preprints servers, including Preprints.org. Reviews can be shared openly under real or pseudonymous identities. Authors gain insights from interdisciplinary perspectives, while reviewers contribute to a culture of open scientific communication.
Key features include:
Searchable Feedback: Filter requests for feedback by research field and/or language on PREreview website.
Real-Time Collaboration: Join PREreview’s Slack Community (#request-a-review channel) to get real-time updates on preprints in need of feedback, ask questions, and find opportunities to collaborate.
As Daniela Saderi explains:
“Preprints provide a unique opportunity for real-time feedback, accelerating the research process by bypassing delays in traditional peer review. Surveys show that researchers value feedback on preprints, and initiatives supporting preprint review are growing.”
“At PREreview, we believe that everyone has valuable insights to offer through their expertise and experience. In academia, expertise is too often measured narrowly—typically by credentials, institutional affiliations, or publication records—overlooking the diverse perspectives, lived experiences, and interdisciplinary knowledge that can enrich research, foster innovation, and drive more inclusive and impactful scientific progress.”— Daniela Saderi
Ready to strengthen your research?
Submit your work on Preprints.org, request a PREreview feedback today and experience firsthand the power of community-driven feedback.
And Start Reviewing Preprints Today to help shape groundbreaking research and support a future where every scholarly work is enriched by constructive insights.
As we celebrate this accomplishment, we extend our gratitude to our contributors who have chosen Preprints.org as their platform for sharing groundbreaking research. Your involvement has enriched the academic landscape and significantly advanced the principles of open science and accessibility.
We also wish to express our sincere appreciation to our Advisory Board Members and screeners for their unwavering support and guidance. Your expertise and dedication have been instrumental in maintaining the quality of the preprints hosted on our platform. Together, we have created a vibrant environment where researchers can freely share their findings and engage in meaningful discourse.
Looking ahead, we remain committed to enhancing the user experience and expanding our services. We encourage researchers from all disciplines to continue utilizing Preprints.org to disseminate their work, give feedback, and establish their research’s priority.
Thank you for being part of this journey with us. Here’s to many more milestones ahead in the realm of open research!
Reaching 10,000 preprints in less than half a year highlights the vibrant and diverse research community that supports Preprints.org. We extend our heartfelt gratitude to the researchers, authors, advisory board members, screeners and readers who have contributed to the success of Preprints.org.
This achievement underscores our commitment to fostering global knowledge sharing and scientific collaborations. Since our inception, we have been dedicated to providing researchers with a free and open platform via which to rapidly share their early findings. We will continue to explore ways to enhance the user experience and expand our reach to new communities in the future.
Join us in celebrating the 10,000 preprints posted on Preprints.org this year by exploring the most viewed preprints in 2024here. Embrace a future of open and collaborative science with us!
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