Re: [dinosaur] New preprint: sauropods have spinal-cord supports like salamanders

I saw Pete Binfield in person a few weeks back, and chatted about it. Low
usage was the major reason, judging by our conversation--and there are more
servers out there now, too, than when PeerJ preprints started.

On Wed, Sep 18, 2019 at 9:04 AM Mike Taylor <[email protected]> wrote:

> Yes, I lament the forthcoming closing of PeerJ Preprints, and I'm a bit
> lost as to why it's happening and why Peter and Jason aren't being as
> forthcoming and communicative over this as they usually are. As it happens,
> I plan to post a PeerJ Preprint this very evening — from my SVPCA talk that
> is the counterpart of the Atherholt and Wedel one that launched this thread
> — but it will likely be my last. I like PeerJ Preprints partly just because
> I'm used to it, no doubt. But it does also have a bunch of neat features,
> including collections, comments and questions. I guess I will find out soon
> enough whether BiorXiv has them, too.
>
> -- Mike.
>
>
> On Wed, 18 Sep 2019 at 16:37, Jura <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> PeerJ Preprints is going to be closed, BTW. Nobody has so much as hinted
>> at a reason; the official statement on PeerJ's blog just claims "the time
>> has come", there's no way to leave comments on that post, and when I wrote
>> an e-mail to ask, I didn't get any reaction.
>>
>> =============================
>>
>> I suspect it's because it was never all that popular. Despite the strong
>> push from folks like the SVPOW guys, according to a Facebook convo on Nick
>> Gardner's wall, PeerJ preprints were always a hard sell for prospective
>> submitters. They might try funneling things towards BioRxiv or PaleorXiv in
>> the future, especially now that there is a glut of options available to
>> people wanting to go that route.
>>
>> Jason
>>
>>