Launching openRxiv Labs Over the last thirteen years, bioRxiv and medRxiv have grown into widely used infrastructure for rapid research sharing in biology and medicine The… June 1, 2026 Read More
Trust Signals and Accountability By Richard Sever (Chief Science & Strategy Officer) and Tracy K Teal (Chief Executive Officer) Progress in science depends on the trustworthiness… May 29, 2026 Read More
Preprint licensing updates 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… May 20, 2026 Read More
Peer review training with preprints [Guest post] About Guest Posts The openRxiv blog includes occasional guest posts on different aspects of science communication and open research This allows us to… April 29, 2026 Read More
Introducing Hypothesis commenting on bioRxiv and medRxiv: an updated way to engage with preprints An important part of our mission at openRxiv is to collaborate with other organizations to improve science communication and promote interoperability… April 7, 2026 Read More
Versions in action: updating our preprint on preprints bioRxiv and medRxiv were initially an experiment themselves, to see how preprint servers in the life sciences could work and impact science In that… February 26, 2026 Read More
openRxiv 2025 year in review In March we launched openRxiv as an independent, researcher-led non-profit as the new organizational home for bioRxiv and medRxiv to continue… December 31, 2025 Read More
Understanding DOIs for preprints: how openRxiv assigns and manages persistent identifiers Digital object identifiers (DOIs) are a class of persistent identifier (PID) assigned to an object to ensure that it can always be uniquely… November 18, 2025 Read More
openRxiv Day: envisioning scientific communication as a connected ecosystem By Richard Sever (Chief Science & Strategy Officer) and Tracy K Teal (Chief Executive Officer) Gathering together scientists, technology experts,… November 13, 2025 Read More
Enabling options for review: from training and transparency to author-centered AI tools Peer review is widely viewed as a critical aspect of biomedical communication Ideally, it provides authors with feedback so they can improve… November 6, 2025 Read More
Preprint mandates gather momentum By Richard Sever, PhD Chief Science & Strategy Officer, openRxiv Preprints speed up science by enabling researchers to disseminate reports of new… October 6, 2025 Read More
openRxiv partners with Dryad to streamline data sharing and curation An important part of our mission at openRxiv is to collaborate with other organizations to improve science communication and promote interoperability… September 18, 2025 Read More