For the past year, bioRxiv and medRxiv authors have been able to include funder information with their preprints. This can be entered in a dedicated field during the submission process, using Research...

Automated tools that assess manuscripts and provide structured feedback to help authors improve the text, strengthen claims, and identify potential gaps in their evidence or logic are being increasing...

Read on for early results and what we’ll be looking at in the next phase.

We’re excited to announce that Gabriel Stein has joined openRxiv as Head of Product. Stein has already been working with us in a consulting capacity, helping to conceptualize and launch openRxiv Labs ...

Authors who post preprints on openRxiv servers can get formal and informal feedback on their manuscripts in a number of ways. Our bioRxiv to journal (B2J) and medRxiv to journal (M2J) pipelines are li...

At FORCE11 2026, Curvenote showcased the newly launched Curvenote Reader deployed over all of openRxiv to enthusiastic feedback from scientific publishing leaders — with callouts on the innovation fro...

The future of interactive preprints and papers were on display at the FORCE2026 conference in Singapore, and here I discuss what was presented and what the future of "living figures" might hold

Browse recent bioRxiv preprints available on the openRxiv Labs: Curvenote Reader.

Over the last thirteen years, bioRxiv and medRxiv have grown into widely used infrastructure for rapid research sharing in biology and medicine. The reliability and researcher-first values that have d...

By Richard Sever (Chief Science & Strategy Officer) and Tracy K. Teal (Chief Executive Officer) Progress in science depends on the trustworthiness of research that is shared. Developing signals that i...

Central to our philosophy at openRxiv is the idea that authors should be in control of the dissemination of their work. Authors retain copyright* of manuscripts posted on bioRxiv or medRxiv, and they ...

About Guest Posts The openRxiv blog includes occasional guest posts on different aspects of science communication and open research. This allows us to provide space for new perspectives from groups pi...

An important part of our mission at openRxiv is to collaborate with other organizations to improve science communication and promote interoperability. Preprints are just one part of the research workflow, and we want to ensure they are effectively integrated with other research outputs in scientists’ workflows. Public datasets are a good example, since these serve…

An important part of our mission at openRxiv is to collaborate with other organizations to improve science communication and promote interoperability. Preprints are just one part of the research workf...

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When we launched medRxiv in mid-2019, we never could have anticipated that just a few months later, New York would be at the epicenter of a rapidly escalating global pandemic, and we would be handling hundreds of papers about a previously unknown virus every week. Articles about bioRxiv and medRxiv preprints would appear on the New York Times front page, and our team worked every waking hour, seven days a week, making rapid decisions about sometimes controversial work and disseminating results of COVID research to millions of readers around the globe. Along the way, we were called dangerous and irresponsible by some, wimps and censors by others, but most in the biomedical community valued the service, and even Anthony Fauci and the head of the WHO called attention to the importance of preprints.

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By Richard Sever, PhD. Chief Science & Strategy Officer, openRxiv Preprints speed up science by enabling researchers to disseminate reports of new findings immediately. They also represent a simple wa...

An important part of our mission at openRxiv is to collaborate with other organizations to improve science communication and promote interoperability. Preprints are just one part of the research workf...

The National Institutes of Health (NIH) recently issued a request for information (RFI) on allowable publishing costs associated with NIH grants. The RFI invites comments on strategies for limiting ar...

As preprints continue to reshape how we share scientific knowledge, we’re continuing to think about how we receive, share and acknowledge credit in our work. One important area for this is including f...

We’re grateful and excited to share that Dr. Richard Sever and Dr. John Inglis have earned The Royal Society’s 2025 Research Culture Award for contributions to improving the scientific system and chan...

After an exhaustive, international search, the openRxiv Board of Directors has appointed Dr. Tracy Teal as the organization’s inaugural CEO. Dr Teal has served as interim COO of openRxiv since its lau...

Find out why Richard Sever is on the TIME100 Health 2025 list.