Preprints in Scholarly Communication: Re-Imagining Metrics and Infrastructures

In scholarly communication, the growth of preprint repositories over the last three decades as a new model of scholarly publishing has emerged as one of the major developments. Using preprint repositories as a case study, this article situates them in a scholarly web, examining their salient features, benefits, and futures. However, for the preprint repositories to sustain, scholarly communities and funding agencies should support continued investment in open knowledge, alternative metrics development, and open infrastructures in scholarly publishing.