The openRxiv Labs announcement is incredibly exciting. Here's why I think so.
Lately, I have spent a considerable amount of time writing about my concerns regarding the direction of the preprint ecosystem and the behaviour of some of the actors within it. Increasingly, I worry that preprinting is being pushed toward becoming little more than a replica of the existing scholarly publishing system. For those of us who see preprints as an opportunity for genuine and meaningful change, that would be a profound disaster.
