Preprints and the Evolution of Scholarly Publishing
- Iowa State University Library
- Committee on Lectures (funded by Student Government)
Open Access Week 2021 with Dr. Richard Sever
Recording Link: https://iastate.hosted.panopto.com/Panopto/Pages/Viewer.aspx?id=a8a0e2c4-2091-4aa8-958b-adce0108fec8
Richard Sever is Assistant Director of Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory in New York and Co-Founder of the preprint servers bioRxiv and medRxiv. He also serves as Executive Editor for the Cold Spring Harbor Perspectives and Cold Spring Harbor Protocols journals, and launched the precision medicine journal Cold Spring Harbor Molecular Case Studies.
After receiving a degree in Biochemistry from Oxford University, Richard obtained his PhD at the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology in Cambridge, UK. He then moved into editorial work, first as an editor at Current Opinion in Cell Biology and later Trends in Biochemical Sciences. He subsequently served as Executive Editor of Journal of Cell Science, before moving to Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory in 2008.