Question: The passage given below is followed by four alternate summaries. Choose the option that best captures the essence of the passage.
Biologists who publish their research directly to the Web have been labelled as “rogue”, but physicists have been routinely publishing research digitally (“preprints”), prior to submitting in a peer-reviewed journal. Advocates of preprints argue that quick and open dissemination of research speeds up scientific progress and allows for wider access to knowledge. But some journals still don’t accept research previously published as a preprint. Even if the idea of preprints is gaining ground, one of the biggest barriers for biologists is how they would be viewed by members of their conservative research community.
Option (a) is incorrect since it mentions that most scientific communities do not accept preprints. This is not mentioned in the passage. This passage brings out the distinction between the attitudes of physicists and biologists with regards to "publishing research digitally". While the former have been publishing research digitally, the latter have not been very open to it.
Option (b) is incorrect as it contradicts the passage by stating that biologists accept the practice of preprint.
Option (c) best captures the essence of the passage.
Option (d) doen't bring out the distinction between biologists and physicists as mentioned in the passage.
Hence, option (c).