Mark Zuckerberg And Priscilla Chan’s Philanthropy Backs Effort To Change Scientific Publishing

Cori Bargmann, president of science at Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, with cofounder Priscilla Chan, M.D. (Photo by Bryan Bedder/Getty Images for The New York Times )

The Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, the philanthropic investment vehicle created by Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg and his wife, Priscilla Chan, M.D., will fund an effort to allows biologists to share drafts of papers before they are published in peer-reviewed scientific journals like Nature or Science. Financial terms were not disclosed.

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