This has been in the works for what feels like an eternity. But the time has come to introduce the thinking behind Rippling Ideas, what it is and what it will be producing in the near future.

Stüttgen, Maik C.1  1University Medical Center Mainz, Mainz, Germany

Guest blogger Jonny Coates looks at Richard Poynder's post-mortem on the Open Access movement, and uses it as a framework to ask questions about the future of preprints.