Authors can share their findings in the form of a pre-review version of the manuscript quickly after submission, thus avoiding several weeks or months of waiting before their study is formally published in a scientific journal.

By sharing their work early on, researchers are better positioned to claim priority of work.

Preprints can be easily posted on social networks via sharing tools, in addition to the default sharing on the ARPHA Prerints social accounts. The outreach of the preprints (i.e. views, downloads, citations and public mentions) is trackable via ARPHA platform and its integration with Altmetric and Dimensions. Users can also subscribe for news alerts via RSS, web services and automated email notifications.

Preprints are indexed by several appropriate indexing services (e.g. Google Scholar, OpenAIRE, ScienceOpen). On the ARPHA Preprints website, preprints can also be easily browsed using several filters.

Authors submitting to an ARPHA journal only need to check a box to indicate they wish to post a preprint. There is no need to make two separate submissions, one to an external preprint server and another to a journal.

Preprints will be open to both personal and private comments from readers, thus prompting feedback and contributions even before the paper sees the light of day. By opening them up to the scrutiny of the community, preprints may in fact be subjected to much more vigorous and rounded examination by a larger number of specialists.

Preprints are indexed by several appropriate indexing services (e.g. Google Scholar, OpenAIRE, ScienceOpen). On the ARPHA Preprints website, preprints can also be easily browsed using several filters.

Posting a preprint does not incur additional charges to the authors or journals on ARPHA.