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  • This section of the course is for participants to practice how to post a preprint.
    Recording of a Zoom session for information about how to post a preprint on BAOBAB. You can access the presentation here.

    There are a growing number of servers on which to post preprints, such as medRxiv or PublicHealthRN, however we plan to use the new BAOBAB repository.

    BAOBAB has a special section, or community, for public health - the Coalition for Open Publishing of Public Health in Africa (COPPHA).

    You can post a full article as you would be submitting to a journal (research, commentary, review, letter etc). If you do not have such an article, you can post a presentation that you have made, or even a commentary about this course - anything. This is designed to demonstrate the system for posting preprints. In the next section. Your file will be considered as a preprint, and will be published after consideration by a moderator.

    You can find a User Guide for BAOBAB here. The Coalition for Open Publishing of Public Health (COPPHA) section can be found here.

    You may be asked for an ORCID ID to post to BAOBAB. ORCID stands for Open Researcher and Contributor ID. If you have not registered with ORCID yet, you will have to do so. It is very easy and you can access the instructions here.

    The process:
    Go to https://baobab.wacren.net/communities/coppha/records which will take you to the COPPHA section of BAOBAB.
    • Click on New upload. You will be prompted to sign up to BAOBAB
    • You will then be able to upload your file and be asked to complete Basic information about the file: Resource type; Title; Authors. This is all you need to fill out - there is a subsequent section Recommended information, and you can complete some of that if you wish, but it is not necessary
    • Scroll to the bottom and click on Submit for review.
    • The COPPHA community moderator will review the file and if it is suitable it will be published and you will receive an ARK digital identifier. This publication is as a preprint and acceptance does not imply that it has been subject to peer review - the moderator will only have the role of checking that it is a suitable file.
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      There are two tasks in this forum.

      1. Post your preprint on the BAOBAB repository in the COPPHA community section  https://baobab.wacren.net/communities/coppha/records. You will have to sign up. Then upload the file that you have prepared as a preprint. The process is described above in the section of the course. Then post the title of the file you have uploaded to this forum.

      2. Tell us briefly why you chose this document to upload as a preprint and describe it briefly.