Wiley launches Research Exchange Preprints platform
Wiley has announced the launch of Research Exchange Preprints, a new platform designed to streamline the posting and discovery of early-stage research. The publisher also revealed that ChemRxiv, the chemistry preprint server co-owned by several leading chemical societies, has selected the platform as its technology provider.
ChemRxiv is jointly operated by the American Chemical Society, Royal Society of Chemistry, German Chemical Society, Chinese Chemical Society, and Chemical Society of Japan. The service hosts tens of thousands of chemistry preprints and records millions of downloads globally.
Preprint platforms allow researchers to share findings publicly before formal peer review, enabling rapid dissemination of results, establishing priority for discoveries, and gathering community feedback.
According to Wiley, ChemRxiv’s use of Research Exchange Preprints will provide researchers with a streamlined submission experience supported by intelligent file uploads, AI-driven metadata extraction, and tools designed to simplify preprint posting. The platform also includes a versioning system that allows researchers to manage updates to their work collaboratively, with dedicated DOIs assigned to each version.
“Together, ChemRxiv and Research Exchange Preprints will reduce friction for authors and support the kind of rapid knowledge exchange the research community needs,” said Julie Nash, VP of Business Growth & Development, Publishing Solutions at Wiley. “Through a modern publishing infrastructure, we will bring more findings to life, helping researchers share information more efficiently to drive breakthroughs in the chemical sciences.”
The new offering builds on Wiley’s existing Research Exchange platform, which the company says now supports more than 1,500 scholarly journals. The infrastructure also connects preprint posting with article submission through the platform’s Under Review service, enabling authors to share work early while allowing readers to track the peer-review process transparently.
Wiley said this integration allows researchers to establish provenance for discoveries while maintaining the standards of traditional peer review.
“We selected Research Exchange Preprints because of Wiley’s focus on an improved experience for preprint authors and readers,” said Ben Mudrak, Senior Product Manager at ChemRxiv. “The platform’s robust features, combined with future plans for rendering full-text preprints, closely align with our goal to speed up processes at ChemRxiv as it grows and our commitment to serving the chemistry research community with a state-of-the-art preprint experience.”
Research Exchange Preprints also includes features such as customisable branding, dedicated domains, and editorial dashboards designed to provide real-time insights into submissions and content performance. Wiley said the platform is built on the Atypon Experience Platform, enabling scalability and the rapid rollout of new features based on feedback from the research community.