ChemRxiv is a preprint server devoted to chemistry launched by the ACS in 2017 and is now co-owned by the Royal Society of Chemistry and the German Chemical Society (GDCh). ChemRxiv has experienced incredible growth since launch and changed how many go about publishing academic papers in chemistry. As a result, many chemists are wondering what preprints are and how they can use them.
In this seminar, Dr Marshall Brennan, ChemRxiv’s Publishing Manager, will describe what preprints are, what preprint servers do, and answer questions about how ChemRxiv can impact your scholarly publication workflow.
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Marshall received his Bachelor’s in Chemistry with honors from Northeastern University in Boston, MA, during which time he carried out research at Harvard University under the supervision of Professor Tobias Ritter. He completed his graduate work in 2015 at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in the laboratory of Prof. Alison Fout, studying low-valent cobalt complexes featuring strongly-donating bis(silyl)amide ligands and their catalytic reactivity toward C—N bond formation. He then carried postdoctoral research on rhodium-mediated C—C activation methodology before joining Nature Chemistry as an editor for nearly two years. In 2017, Marshall was recruited to lead the launch and development of the American Chemical Society’s new preprint server, ChemRxiv, where he now oversees day-to-day operations and business development. In 2018, Marshall was a recipient of the ACS Catalyst Award and a nominee for Forbes Magazine’s “30 Under 30 in Science & Technology”. Marshall is based out of the Washington, D.C. office.