- Allow researchers to share their work openly and rapidly at no cost to them.
- Enable researchers to provide feedback, cite, and build upon research more quickly.
- Provide the most equitable benefit to grantees, researchers and the scientific community.
- Preprints are journal agnostic – the research can be evaluated on its own merit.
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