Science Communication

  • Best practices on sharing your research as Preprints

a list of preprint servers: bioRxiv, medRxiv, OSF Preprints, Preprints.org, ChemRxiv

Article on the value of preprints for early career researchers

RXivist a tool for finding interesting preprints

ASAPbio preprint resources

A guide to preprinting for early career researchers

a Handbook on preprinting research

bioRxiv is the preprint server for biology

Preprinting is positively associated with early career researcher status

Releasing a preprint is associated with more attention and citations for the peer-reviewed article

4 Years of preprints in Chemistry via ChemRxiv

Why preprints?

bioRxiv is integrated into over 200 journal submission systems such as eLife

  • Best practices for creating & sharing scientific figures

Article on creating clear and informative image-based figures for scientific publications

Improving your figure for color blindness

How to avoid creating doctored images

You can publish your figures on Figshare and on Open Science Framework before the article is accepted and give them a CC-BY license then they will always be freely available. 

Best practices in Science Communication by American Society for Cell Biology