Just occurred to me putting up on Zenodo might also be option? (from what I recall that goes almost instant and you get DOI)
Quite funny they didn’t take (they rejected reviews by me before). Medarxiv can be even more picky (and funny), they wanted us once to replace “..a 25 year old woman..” with “a patient who identified as female between the age of 20 and 30…” so the reader cannot possibly identify the person. I mean who reads this and thinks “…you know that patient with the abnormal frequency-wavevector scaling of plasma viscosity in that pre-print? Well, that can only be Caroline from Tuesday Yoga class!”
From: Kareem Elsayad <kareem.elsayad@meduniwien.ac.at>
Date: Tuesday, 9. September 2025 at 11:45
To: Software Mailing list <software@biobrillouin.org>
Subject: Re: [EXTERN] [Software] Fwd: BIORXIV/2025/674600 -- Please Resubmit
Yes, I agree – let’s do arXiv then.
From: Robert Prevedel via Software <software@biobrillouin.org>
Reply to: Robert Prevedel <prevedel@embl.de>
Date: Tuesday, 9. September 2025 at 10:06
To: Software Mailing list <software@biobrillouin.org>
Subject: [EXTERN] [Software] Fwd: BIORXIV/2025/674600 -- Please Resubmit
Dear all,
please see below - surprisingly bioRxiv does not think our manuscript fits and they require more analysis/data.
Shall we quickly submit to arXiv instead? Just let me know!
Best,
Robert
--
Dr. Robert Prevedel
Group Leader and Senior Scientist
Cell Biology and Biophysics Unit
European Molecular Biology Laboratory
Meyerhofstr. 1
69117 Heidelberg, Germany
Phone: +49 6221 387-8722
Email: robert.prevedel@embl.de
http://www.prevedel.embl.de