Tim Ellison, Medical Writer, Oxford PharmaGenesis, reviews the growing importance of preprints in medical publishing and explores a number of considerations for the pharmaceutical industry.

Recorded 17 October 2018 at a MedComms Networking event in Oxford. Produced by NetworkPharma.tv

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ABSTRACT:

Open Pharma aims to improve the medical publications model by connecting pharma with innovations in publishing. We are coordinating a group of forward-thinking pharma clients, publishers, patients, academics, regulators, editors, non-pharmaceutical funders and societies to identify the changes that are needed and how they might be achieved. We are engaged with the open science movement and aim to advance in our world of medical publishing topics such as open access, preprints, author identification and disclosure, and data sharing. Open Pharma is a non-profit-seeking project at Oxford PharmaGenesis, which is funded by members and supporters.

In this talk, we discuss the advantages of preprints and their increasing use in biology before considering their use in medicine, which has prompted much debate. We also focus on the current and potential use of preprints by pharma, and recent and upcoming developments in preprints.

Written by Tim Ellison, Medical Writer, Oxford PharmaGenesis

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We are building a library of free webcasts, like this one, for the global MedComms Community and others at http://www.networkpharma.tv and we’d welcome your suggestions for new topics and speakers.

Full details of this MedComms Networking event are at http://www.medcommsnetworking.com/event_171018.html

Tim’s presentation (PDF format) is at http://medcommsnetworking.com/presentations/ellison_171018.pdf

Tim’s Linkedin page is at https://www.linkedin.com/in/timsellison/

More about Oxford PharmaGenesis can be found at http://www.pharmagenesis.com/

More about Open Pharma can be found at https://openpharma.blog

Filming and technical direction by Mario Crispino, Freelance Cameraman & Editor

[For the avoidance of doubt: this video is intended to be freely accessible to all. Please feel free to share and use however you like. Cheers Peter Llewellyn, Director NetworkPharma Ltd and Founder of the MedComms Networking Community activity at http://www.medcommsnetworking.com]