The Importance of a Preprint Repository

On-line communication is changing the way in which scientific research is communicated and reviewed. Dissemination has become easy and fast, and established journals with deliberate reviewing processes are becoming a means for validation, and not so much for dissemination, of research results. Since the best of journals do retract papers for fraudulent or fabricated data, the model of quick dissemination of preprints followed by review and cross-checks by all interested subject experts, does present an alternate to limited pre-publication reviews imposed by academic journals.