eLife and the nature of Open Access in the Life Sciences | AJ

"I want to explore the impact of a recent player in the open access game, eLife. Started with support from the Howard Huges Medical Institute, Max-Plank Institutes and the Wellcome Trust, this journal was started in 2012. The current editor-in-chief is Nobel Laureate Randy Schekman from the University of California at Berkeley. With a focus on rethinking the peer-review system, eLife claims to have created a system where the reviewers of a journal have a platform to discuss their perspectives of the the manuscript, and provide the editor with a single coherent set of feedback. The goal is to minimize conflicting reviews from the journal in the hope of streamlining the publication experience for authors by providing constructive and coherent reviews."