For years now, preprint communities have provided a glimmer of an alternative to the journal publishing system, that speed and efficiency might replace what has seemed to many like a cumbersome editorial and peer review process. What started in a small set of originating fields such as high energy physics in 1991 has, in recent years, begun to take hold elsewhere, including the biomedical sciences
![Publishers Invest in Preprints - The Scholarly Kitchen](https://cdn-ak-scissors.b.st-hatena.com/image/square/a4438f877c8d834fb13bd6b8531bcef12863da89/height=288;version=1;width=512/https%3A%2F%2Fscholarlykitchen.sspnet.org%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2020%2F05%2Fhardin-julia.jpg)