Another interesting and innovative comment came from a scientist who suggested that researchers should share individual pieces of data as they are produced. In that sense, the community could respond as to whether that particular piece of data was sound, or whether the experiment could be improved before making too much headway into a project. An example of such effort can be found in the Extreme Open Science world-wide initiative and the work by Dr. Rachel Harding, a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Toronto and member of the Structural Genomic Consortium, who has been sharing her lab notes in the blog LabScribbles.
Other people were more skeptical over the whole preprint business. One of the biggest fears was confirmed to be, not surprisingly, 'scooping'! Scooping is the fear of having your work, your precious results you put so much time and effort in crafting, heartlessly stolen from you and claimed by others as their own in prestigious publication avenues. In response to this concern, Paul Ginsparg, founder of arXiv would say, “It can’t happen, since arχiv postings are accepted as date-stamped priority claims.”