The selfish scientist’s guide to preprint posting

The key issue is getting funding. The funding agencies like the NIH need to set the rules.

Proposal: Funding agencies should require publishing in open access pre-print servers and ban publishing with for-profit publishers like Elsevier.

If I have to post to pre-print, worry about others scooping me with what I post there while I'm waiting for the regular journal to publish it, why bother? We need the funding agencies to accept the pre-print servers as the endgame, and not just another thing we have to do. Otherwise it's a non-starter.