Nascent

As described in an editorial in this week's issue of Nature, Nature Precedings is a new service that:

will enable researchers to share, discuss and cite their early findings. It provides a lightly moderated and relatively informal channel for scientists to disseminate information, especially recent experimental results and emerging conclusions. In this sense, it is designed to complement traditional peer-reviewed journals, allowing researchers to make informal communications such as conference papers or presentations more widely available and enabling them to be formally cited. This, in turn, allows them to solicit community feedback and establish priority over their results or ideas.

Even better, it's completely free to readers and authors alike.

We'll be launching in the next few days. There will be a lot more to write about after that. In the meantime, Pedro was quick off the mark. I'm collecting this and other coverage of Nature Precedings in Connotea.

I must run now to catch my flight to London after a very busy week in Tokyo — sayonara.

Update: If you're interested in a sneak preview and have some suitable documents to share then drop a note to precedings-at-nature-dot-com, giving details of your name and affiliation.