Bioinformatics Zen

Previously I wrote about journal polices towards preprint servers. Since, Dave Robertson contacted me to highlight the Romeo database, which contains a list of journals and their publishing policies. A quick 10 minute search produced this list of archiving guidelines, I’ve updated this on the Nodalpoint wiki. Each journal also has some additional conditions, follow the links to Romeo to read more.

Supports preprint and postprint

BMC
PLOS
National Academy of Sciences
Elsevier excluding Cell

Supports preprint only

OUP
Nature

Supports postprint only

Science
Elsevier - Cell

From the Nature peer review blog

In short: wordprocessors embed author details in metadata, and downloads from websites can be tracked using tools such as Google analytics.

Solutions? Well partial ones at least.

Submit your review in plain text, and make sure no metadata is attached. Download data from public repositories, or from Google cache.