<div dir="ltr">Greetings all<div> following extensive discussions, the ASA has changed its policy on preprints.</div><div><br></div><div> This is not, however, retrospective and at the moment we have no information about how the current round of DP, CoE etc will be affected.</div><div><br></div><div> We will share more information as we receive. it.</div><div><br>JL<br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">
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The ARC has issued a <a href="https://www.arc.gov.au/news-publications/media/communiques/adjustments-arcs-position-preprints" target="_blank">
communique</a> regarding an adjustment to ARC’s
policy position on inclusion of preprints for future
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<b><span style="font-size:18.0pt">Adjustments to the
ARC’s position on preprints</span></b></p>
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For future scheme rounds, the ARC will allow the
referencing and inclusion of preprints in any part of
a National Competitive Grant Program (NCGP) grant
application. This includes within the Research Outputs
list as well as the body of an application.</p>
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This adjustment to ARC’s policy position reflects
contemporary trends and the emerging significance of
preprint acceptance and use across multiple research
disciplines as a mechanism to expedite research and
facilitate open research, as well as to provide
greater equity across disciplines and career stages. </p>
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The following definition of a preprint, resulting from
the recent sector consultation and developed in
conjunction with a cohort of ARC Australian Laureate
Fellows, will now be included in relevant NCGP
documentation.
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<i><span style="color:black">“A preprint or comparable
resource is a scholarly output that is uploaded by
the authors to a recognised publicly accessible
archive, repository, or preprint service (such as,
but not limited to, arXiv, bioRxiv, medRxiv,
ChemRxiv, Peer J Preprints, Zenodo, GitHub,
PsyArXiv and</span></i><i><span>
</span>p<span style="color:black">ublicly available
university or government repositories</span></i><i><span>
</span><span style="color:black">etc.). This will
include a range of materials that have been
subjected to varying degrees of peer review from
none to light and full review. Ideally, a preprint
or comparable resource should have a unique
identifier or a DOI (digital object identifier).
Any citation of a preprint or comparable resource
should be explicitly identified as such and listed
in the references with a DOI, URL or equivalent,
version number and/or date of access, as
applicable.”</span></i></p>
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The inclusion of preprints will no longer be
considered an eligibility issue and applications will
not be excluded by their use. Instead, the ARC will
rely on the knowledge of its assessors in determining
the value, suitability and relevance of citations and
research outputs for the disciplinary field. Preprints
and other comparable resources will form part of a
holistic assessment of research outputs undertaken by
peer reviewers to consider the quality and novelty of
proposed research.</p>
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The ARC appreciates the feedback it has received from
the research sector on the issue of the inclusion of
preprints within NCGP grant applications. We thank the
esteemed academics, learned academies, research
institutions and peak bodies that have assisted the
ARC to ensure that the broadest range of disciplinary
perspectives could be incorporated into this policy
decision.</p>
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The ARC will provide additional information within all
new Instructions to Applicants and documentation to
assist researchers in the inclusion of preprints
within their RMS profile and application forms.
Documentation for scheme rounds that are currently
open for applications—Industrial Transformation
Training Centres, Industrial Transformation Research
Hubs and Linkage Projects—will be updated shortly.</p>
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The change to preprint requirements cannot be applied
to scheme rounds where application periods have
closed. While we acknowledge the widespread feedback
that we have recently received, we must allow our
standard application and appeals processes to be
completed for these cases. We can assure the sector
that the appeals process is overseen by a group of
experienced and respected individuals independent of
the ARC and will be progressed as a matter of
priority.</p>
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