SSRN [ http://www.ssrn.com/ ], Elsevier's world leading preprint server and early stage research platform, has today announced the launch of 'Preprints with The Lancet' - a new preprint series for sharing early stage health and medical research.
The collaboration brings together SSRN with The Lancet [ http://www.thelancet.com/ ]as part of a six-month pilot to assess whether the health and medical community are ready for this form of early research sharing. ---
Preprints are research papers that are at the submission stage or can be described as on-going research. By sharing online, authors widen the opportunity for receiving comments on their work by other researchers with the goal of an improved final peer-reviewed publication and for exchange of research areas with the future potential for collaboration. Preprints are primarily intended for research use; they have not been through the important steps of peer review and experienced
