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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mysticete" data-source="post: 3377898" data-attributes="member: 67784"><p>I have been hearing quite a bit of discussion amongst biologists and paleontologists about trying to move more journals to a "pre-print model", as a solution to the problem of increasing amounts of time to get things from submitted to published. This model is widely used in other sciences such as physics IIRC, and I wonder what expanding that that model might do long run to current ideas about date of description, etc.</p></blockquote><p></p>