Noted: Davies believes a professional organization provides a natural fit for a preprint server. Although ACS has not formally polled its membership, he adds, most of its advisers and journal editors support ChemRxiv. (Science and Nature, among many others, now publish papers that first appeared as preprints.) The initiative was first proposed by Laura Kiessling, a chemistry professor at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, and editor-in-chief of ACS Chemical Biology, during a society retreat in January.
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