Overlay journals and supplement review < biochemistries

"An overlay journal (or repository journal) is a specific type of open access journal (generally online). While not producing content itself, it selects from texts that are freely available ‒ deriving content from preprint servers such as arXiv, or from commercial publishers using self-archived, pre-, or post-prints. Editors locate and evaluate suitable material, anywhere from the decision of a single editor up to a full peer review process. Brown (2010) writes that 'An overlay journal performs all the activities of a scholarly journal and relies on structural links with one or more archives or repositories to perform its activities.'  while Peter Suber (2003) defines one as 'an open access journal that takes submissions from the preprints deposited at an archive… and subjects them to peer-review'. Referring to them as repository journals, he also wrote that they 'use the institutional repository as the journal infrastructure. Submissions are deposited in the journal as preprints, and accepted articles are redeposited as postprints, labelled to show that they have been peer-reviewed.'  In a footnote, Harley and Acord (2011) detail how this new phenomenon is 'still fairly speculative at present' ..."