Items tagged by EmilyP in Open Access Tracking Project (OATP) https://tagteam.harvard.edu/hubs/oatp/user/EmilyP TagTeam social RSS aggregrator When an article is first published as a Reviewed Preprint in eLife, it includes an eLife Assessment written by the editors and reviewers. This assessment uses a common vocabulary to describe the significance of the findings and the strength of the evidence reported in the article. This approach promotes the assessment of research at the article level, rather than relying on journal names or journal-level metrics. Following publication of the first version of a Reviewed Preprint, authors can choose to publish their article as a regular journal article (Version of Record; VOR) and mark the end of the process. However, many authors revise their work before requesting a VOR. When authors revise, the editors and reviewers reassess the work and consider updates to the eLife Assessment and the terms included in it. In this article we report how the terms used to describe significance of findings and strength of evidence change between the first and final versions of articles, and how often authors revise their work. Tue, 17 Mar 2026 11:18:00 -0400 https://elifesciences.org/inside-elife/e9d530fc/the-elife-model-comparing-elife-assessments-across-revisions oa.new oa.publishers oa.data oa.assessment oa.preprints oa.versions oa.business_models oa.up This article reviews the past year of PRC at eLife, including data on submissions and the impact of losing our impact factor. An accompanying Editorial also assesses the past three years and outlines some of the changes that will be made over the course of 2026. Tue, 17 Mar 2026 09:09:00 -0400 https://elifesciences.org/inside-elife/7da92a51/the-elife-model-three-year-update oa.new oa.publishers oa.funders oa.data oa.infrastructure oa.assessment oa.business_models oa.up oa.prc oa.wellcome oa.elife oa.impact oa.jif oa.preprints eLife is pleased to offer open access agreements for research institutions in support of a more equitable and sustainable system for scientific publishing. Under one of these agreements, known as an uncapped scheme, corresponding authors affiliated with a partner organisation can publish an unlimited number of articles in eLife during a two-year term, with their organisation agreeing to cover a preset fee for that period. Uncapped schemes are a step towards a more equitable and sustainable publishing landscape, and typically help institutions support their researchers in publishing open access. For eLife in particular, they enable partner organisations to unlock opportunities for their researchers to try a new way of publishing through the eLife Model. Wed, 30 Jul 2025 08:19:00 -0400 https://elifesciences.org/for-the-press/ee9d75a6/elife-adds-publishing-agreements-to-its-offering-to-support-an-open-research-future oa.new oa.publishing oa.agreements oa.journals oa.elife oa.business_models oa.publishers eLife has announced Timothy (Tim) Behrens as its new Editor-in-Chief to lead the initiative’s efforts to transform research communication. Behrens, Professor of Computational Neuroscience at the University of Oxford and University College London, as well as a Wellcome Trust Principal Research Fellow and Group Leader at the Sainsbury Wellcome Centre, is a long-time supporter and contributor to eLife’s work. Behrens and Detlef Weigel had served as interim co-Editors-in-Chief for just over a year. With his dedication and extensive experience at eLife, Behrens has now been selected after an open and competitive search process.   Thu, 16 Jan 2025 06:37:00 -0500 https://elifesciences.org/for-the-press/25f827d5/elife-appoints-timothy-behrens-as-editor-in-chief oa.new oa.journals oa.gold oa.publishers oa.peer_review oa.people On January 31 2023, we launched our new model for publishing, combining the speed and transparency of preprints with the expert scrutiny and evaluation of peer review. We committed to publish everything that we reviewed. We would publish preprints together with public reviews and assessments. By doing so we would reshape the purpose of a journal. In adopting our new model we hoped to persuade the research community to embrace change. We could help researchers choose alternative ways to share their research, convince institutions and funders to look beyond one dimensional measures, and encourage journals to offer publishing models that embody the principles of open science. Thu, 29 Feb 2024 08:38:00 -0500 https://elifesciences.org/inside-elife/66d43597/elife-s-new-model-one-year-on oa.new oa.open_science oa.peer_review oa.publishers oa.elife oa.preprints oa.open_peer_review oa.journals oa.case.journals eLife’s mission has been to innovate and improve the way research is communicated. This led us, in October 2022, to announce a new model for publishing, which is now open for submissions. Tue, 31 Jan 2023 04:03:00 -0500 https://elifesciences.org/inside-elife/741dbe4d/elife-s-new-model-open-for-submissions oa.elife oa.new oa.preprints oa.peer_review oa.publishing oa.gold oa.journals oa.business_models oa.video eLife is pleased to welcome four new appointments to our Board of Directors: Federico (Fede) Pelisch, from the University of Dundee, Scotland, UK; Jane McKeating, from the University of Oxford, UK; Freddie Quek, from Times Higher Education; and Joanne Hackett, from IQVIA. They join at an exciting time for eLife, as we switch to our new model of publishing that eliminates accept/reject decisions after peer review and focuses on the public review and assessment of preprints. The model is a major milestone towards our vision for a future where a diverse, global community of scientists and researchers produces open and trusted results for the benefit of all. We are also working to make this vision a reality through our open-source technology development efforts and community engagement activities, all feeding into our overarching ‘publish, review, curate’ mission that puts preprints first. Wed, 25 Jan 2023 05:06:00 -0500 https://elifesciences.org/inside-elife/7d4ca1cc/elife-latest-announcing-our-new-board-members oa.new oa.elife oa.people eLife is pleased to announce a major change in editorial practice. Building on its 2021 shift to exclusively reviewing preprints, the organisation is ending the practice of making accept/reject decisions following peer review. From January 31, 2023, eLife will instead publish every paper it reviews as a Reviewed Preprint, a new type of research output that combines the manuscript with eLife’s detailed peer reviews and a concise assessment of the significance of the findings and quality of the evidence. Thu, 20 Oct 2022 09:04:00 -0400 https://elifesciences.org/for-the-press/b2329859/elife-ends-accept-reject-decisions-following-peer-review oa.new oa.preprints oa.peer_review oa.policies oa.publishing oa.elife oa.gold oa.journals oa.policies.journals oa.open_peer_review Sciety is pleased to announce the first non-English group to bring open review and curation to the platform: ASAPbio–SciELO Preprints crowd review. Based in Brazil, the group reviews preprints relating to infectious disease research that are posted on the SciELO Preprints server in Brazilian Portuguese. Thu, 06 Oct 2022 09:17:00 -0400 https://elifesciences.org/for-the-press/281cccbb/sciety-welcomes-asapbio-scielo-preprints-crowd-review-for-the-evaluation-of-brazilian-portuguese-preprints oa.sciety oa.scielo oa.publishers oa.preprints oa.portuguese oa.peer_review oa.open_science oa.open_peer_review oa.new oa.crowd oa.brazilian oa.asapbio oa.preprints eLife and PREreview are pleased to announce their continued partnership to engage more diverse communities of researchers in peer review. eLife and PREreview formally teamed up last year following their collaborations on a number of initiatives. Now, as eLife moves towards a new ‘publish, review, curate’ model that puts preprints first, the organisations will increase their efforts to involve more early-career researchers, and researchers from communities that are traditionally marginalised within the peer-review process, in the public review of preprints. Their work will involve further integrating PREreview into Sciety – an application developed by a team within eLife to bring open evaluation and curation together in one place – and opening up new opportunities for more researchers to participate in public review. Mon, 06 Jun 2022 08:59:00 -0400 https://elifesciences.org/for-the-press/a5f813bc/elife-and-prereview-extend-partnership-to-boost-community-engagement-in-open-peer-review oa.elife oa.peer_review oa.versions oa.publishers oa.prereview oa.preprints oa.peer_review oa.partnerships oa.open_peer_review oa.new oa.journals oa.gold oa.elife oa.ecr oa.preprints eLife is pleased to announce Fiona Hutton as its new Head of Publishing. Originally a life scientist specialising in cancer virology, Hutton brings 20 years of STM publishing experience to eLife, including her most recent positions as Head of STM Open Access Publishing and Executive Publisher at Cambridge University Press, UK. She formally begins her role with eLife today, taking over from Interim Head of Publishing Peter Rodgers. Mon, 25 Apr 2022 08:16:00 -0400 https://elifesciences.org/for-the-press/26c2cc27/elife-welcomes-fiona-hutton-as-new-head-of-publishing oa.new oa.preprints oa.open_peer_review oa.publishing oa.versions oa.elife oa.people oa.gold oa.journals oa.peer_review AfricArXiv, Eider Africa, eLife, PREreview, and TCC Africa have collaborated to develop a peer-review training workshop, Open Peer Reviewers in Africa, tailored to the region-specific context of African researchers. They co-created tools and strategies for scholarly literature evaluation, and are now ready to pilot the new workshop series with researchers who would be interested in sharing their knowledge by training others, and helping co-develop the resources further. Mon, 14 Mar 2022 09:59:00 -0400 https://elifesciences.org/inside-elife/30ce0914/open-peer-reviewers-in-africa-nominations-are-now-open-to-recruit-future-peer-review-trainers-across-the-continent oa.new oa.open_peer_review oa.africa oa.training oa.versions oa.south oa.preprints oa.peer_review oa.open_peer_review oa.new oa.peer_review oa.preprints eLife has announced that its four funders, the Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI), Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation, the Max Planck Society and Wellcome, are extending their support for the non-profit organisation. The new investment will boost eLife’s efforts to openly review and curate research published as preprints. Thu, 09 Dec 2021 06:58:00 -0500 https://elifesciences.org/for-the-press/49ded5da/research-funders-invest-in-publish-then-review-model-for-science-publishing oa.new oa.publishing oa.preprints oa.versions oa.funders oa.funding oa.open_peer_review oa.elife oa.hhmi oa.wallenberg_foundation oa.max_planck_society oa.wellcome oa.peer_review eLife and PREreview are working with AfricArXiv, Eider Africa and the Training Centre in Communication (TCC Africa) on a new peer-review training programme for early to mid-career researchers in Africa. The course aims to raise awareness around preprints and foster the participation of African researchers in peer review, especially the open review of preprints. Thu, 02 Dec 2021 00:23:00 -0500 https://elifesciences.org/for-the-press/ce2d4a3e/elife-prereview-and-partners-develop-course-to-involve-more-african-researchers-in-peer-review oa.new oa.versions oa.south oa.preprints oa.peer_reivew oa.new oa.dei oa.prereview oa.elife oa.africa oa.preprints eLife has today opened applications for the 2021 Ben Barres Spotlight Awards – an initiative to support the work of researchers from underrepresented backgrounds and from countries with limited funding. This year’s awards are our most inclusive to date, with researchers of all career stages eligible to apply based on their country of work, disability, ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation or socioeconomic background. To show our support for researchers who have embraced new ways of publishing and reviewing research, the awards are, for the first time, also open to authors of refereed preprints with publicly available reviews in addition to eLife authors. Tue, 14 Sep 2021 07:51:00 -0400 https://elifesciences.org/inside-elife/da65c77e/ben-barres-spotlight-awards-applications-open-for-2021 oa.new oa.funding oa.equality oa.publishing oa.ecr oa.dei oa.elife oa.awards eLife is excited to announce a new approach to peer review and publishing in medicine, including public health and health policy. One of the most notable impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic has been the desire to share important results and discoveries quickly, widely and openly, leading to rapid growth of the preprint server medRxiv. Despite the benefits of rapid, author-driven publication in accelerating research and democratising access to results, the growing number of clinical preprints means that individuals and institutions may act quickly on new information before it is adequately scrutinised. To address this challenge, eLife is bringing its system of editorial oversight by practicing clinicians and clinician-investigators, and rigorous, consultative peer review to preprints. The journal’s goal is to produce ‘refereed preprints’ on medRxiv that provide readers and potential users with a detailed assessment of the research, comments on its potential impact, and perspectives on its use. By providing this rich and rapid evaluation of new results, eLife hopes peer-reviewed preprints will become a reliable indicator of quality in medical research, rather than journal impact factor. Wed, 16 Jun 2021 10:42:00 -0400 https://elifesciences.org/for-the-press/4639e2f6/elife-announces-new-approach-to-publishing-in-medicine oa.new oa.preprints oa.publishers oa.medicine oa.versions oa.gold oa.elife oa.medrxiv oa.speed oa.open_peer_review oa.quality oa.journals oa.peer_review eLife is pleased to announce today its ongoing support for Coko to develop open-source software solutions for publishing, including Kotahi – a new journal platform that can also help facilitate the publication and review of preprints. Mon, 17 May 2021 04:42:00 -0400 https://elifesciences.org/for-the-press/a587f01b/elife-extends-support-for-coko-s-work-on-open-source-publishing-solutions oa.new oa.journals oa.publishing oa.open_peer_review oa.floss oa.peer_review oa.elife oa.platforms oa.versions oa.tools oa.sciety oa.pubsweet oa.publishing oa.preprints oa.platforms oa.peer_review oa.open_peer_review oa.new oa.kotahi oa.journals oa.floss oa.elife oa.coko oa.preprints As eLife transitions to exclusively reviewing preprints, we have integrated medRxiv into our submission process for the rapid sharing of new medical research. Wed, 21 Apr 2021 09:40:00 -0400 https://elifesciences.org/inside-elife/037ef19d/elife-latest-authors-can-now-submit-a-manuscript-to-the-journal-and-medrxiv-at-the-same-time oa.new oa.preprints oa.peer_review oa.versions oa.medrxiv oa.medicine oa.gold oa.journals eLife, in collaboration with Stencila, is pleased to announce today the next phase of development for the Executable Research Article (ERA), bringing computationally reproducible research papers to more authors and publishers. The organisations have partnered on the open-source ERA project since 2017, taking it from the idea stage through to demonstration and, within the last six months, into production at eLife. The project, which allows authors to enrich their work with interactive code and data, has received substantial interest from researchers, publishers and the broader scientific community. To date, six ERAs have been published in eLife, with more in the pipeline. eLife and Stencila have now extended their partnership to bring about the next phase of ERA’s development in 2021. Mon, 01 Mar 2021 07:56:00 -0500 https://elifesciences.org/for-the-press/2b653a68/elife-and-stencila-announce-roadmap-for-bringing-reproducible-publishing-to-more-authors oa.new oa.journals oa.publishers oa.floss eLife has announced today its collaboration with the Novel Coronavirus Research Compendium (NCRC), a publicly available resource from Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, US, that rapidly curates and reviews emerging scientific evidence about SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19. Following the significant growth in research outputs relating to the COVID-19 pandemic, the need for an efficient system to help readers navigate new results has become clear. Both eLife and the team behind the NCRC have been working separately on solutions that involve bringing expert peer review and curation to new papers. While eLife evaluates preprints in all areas of biology and medicine as part of its Preprint Review service, the NCRC focuses specifically on SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 research published either as preprints or in scientific journals. The faculty, fellows, alumni and students behind the Compendium select research for public health action and assign teams of experts to review and summarise the key findings of the papers. eLife is now working with the NCRC to integrate the Compendium into Sciety, a new platform developed by a team within eLife. Mon, 15 Feb 2021 08:00:00 -0500 https://elifesciences.org/for-the-press/a922314b/elife-collaborates-with-novel-coronavirus-research-compendium-on-manuscript-curation-and-review oa.new oa.publishers oa.curation oa.peer_review oa.preprints oa.open_science oa.versions oa.medicine oa.elife eLife is pleased to announce that it is supporting PREreview to pilot an interactive peer review mentoring program that empowers early-career researchers to contribute to scholarly review.   PREreview Open Reviewers is designed by the team behind PREreview.org, a platform for the crowdsourcing of preprint reviews, to support early-career researchers to build their profile as socially conscious, constructive peer reviewers. To bring focus on barriers in scientific participation, the program will facilitate discussions with both mentors and mentees about how intersecting systems of oppression, such as racism, sexism and colonialism, manifest within the global scientific enterprise. Mentees will be guided by their mentors in writing and posting preprint reviews that will be published with a digital object identifier. Additionally, they will have the opportunity to network with peers from across the world, and with journal editors and more senior researchers in their field. Wed, 16 Dec 2020 04:24:00 -0500 https://elifesciences.org/for-the-press/d04c6551/elife-supports-prereview-s-new-peer-review-mentoring-program-for-early-career-researchers oa.new oa.publishers oa.peer_review oa.elife oa.versions oa.training oa.publishers oa.prereview oa.preprints oa.peer_review oa.new oa.elife oa.ecr oa.preprints eLife is pleased to partner with PREreview, a platform for the crowdsourcing of preprint reviews, to bring together scientists globally for a series of virtual discussions around research posted as preprints. Mon, 15 Jun 2020 06:26:00 -0400 https://elifesciences.org/for-the-press/1c959882/elife-and-prereview-partner-on-open-discussion-and-review-of-preprints oa.new oa.gold oa.publishers oa.peer_review oa.elife oa.versions oa.publishers oa.prereview oa.preprints oa.peer_review oa.new oa.journals oa.gold oa.elife oa.preprints eLife is pleased to announce today the launch of Preprint Review, which brings high-quality peer review to the preprint server bioRxiv. Wed, 13 May 2020 06:26:00 -0400 https://elifesciences.org/for-the-press/a5a129f2/elife-launches-service-to-peer-review-preprints-on-biorxiv oa.new oa.journals oa.preprints oa.publishing oa.peer_review oa.versions Changes in annual expenses and publishing volume at eLife show it is possible to run a selective journal with a mid-range publication fee. Thu, 26 Mar 2020 05:31:00 -0400 https://elifesciences.org/inside-elife/719e655d/elife-latest-the-costs-of-publishing oa.new oa.publishers oa.gold oa.costs oa.elife oa.fees oa.case oa.case.journals oa.journals eLife has announced a partnership with fellow non-profit Open Knowledge Maps, which runs the world’s largest visual search engine for scientific literature, to improve the service’s technology platform. This is the latest collaboration under eLife’s Innovation Initiative, aimed at supporting open-source projects in the research discovery and communication space. Wed, 26 Feb 2020 06:38:00 -0500 https://elifesciences.org/for-the-press/ddc42473/elife-and-open-knowledge-maps-partner-to-upgrade-visual-research-discovery-platform oa.new oa.publishing oa.open_science eLife is pleased to announce Damian Pattinson as its new Executive Director. Pattinson will lead the organisation's efforts to improve the communication of new research findings across the life and biomedical sciences. Thu, 23 Jan 2020 00:39:00 -0500 https://elifesciences.org/for-the-press/387b0c3f/elife-names-damian-pattinson-as-new-executive-director oa.new oa.elife oa.gold oa.people oa.journals "eLife is pleased to announce Michael (Mike) Eisen as its new Editor-in-Chief. A world leader in advocacy for open science, Eisen, from University of California, Berkeley, and the Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI), was chosen following a worldwide search and selection process. In addition to his scientific achievements as an HHMI Investigator and Professor of Molecular and Cell Biology, he has demonstrated outstanding leadership and commitment to reforming research comunication for the benefit of scientists and society...." Tue, 05 Mar 2019 08:43:00 -0500 https://elifesciences.org/for-the-press/5cc21558/elife-welcomes-michael-eisen-as-editor-in-chief oa.new oa.gold oa.editorial_board oa.open_science oa.advocacy oa.journals oa.people oa.elife oa.medicine oa.biomedicine oa.floss oa.tools oa.infrastructure oa.ecr eLife has announced today its investment in the development of Texture – an open-source toolset for the editing and production of manuscripts, designed to be integrated into publishers’ editorial and content-delivery systems. Fri, 15 Feb 2019 07:38:00 -0500 https://elifesciences.org/for-the-press/ca18fdae/elife-invests-in-texture-to-provide-open-source-content-production-tools-for-publishers oa.new oa.publishers oa.gold oa.technology oa.software oa.content oa.journals As he prepares to step down as the Editor-in-Chief of eLife, Randy Schekman reflects on the origins of the journal, the eLife approach to peer review, and current challenges in scientific publishing.   Wed, 23 Jan 2019 04:00:00 -0500 https://elifesciences.org/articles/44799 oa.new oa.gold oa.publishing oa.elife oa.journals oa.people eLife, together with the non-profit Collaborative Knowledge Foundation (Coko), open-access publisher Hindawi Limited and digital consultancy Digirati, has today announced a new formal partnership to develop the latest version of Libero. Community-driven and open-source, Libero is a platform of services and applications that help content providers do more with everything they publish. The software presents content in a responsive online format that is easy to access and inviting to read on any device, and is straightforward to integrate with other services that enhance the reader’s interaction with published literature. Libero was originally developed by the non-profit eLife, which aims to help scientists accelerate discovery by operating a platform for research communication that encourages and recognises the most responsible behaviours in science. To facilitate adoption of Libero as a platform by other organisations and expand a high-quality, open infrastructure as an alternative to proprietary systems, eLife, Coko, Hindawi and Digirati have created this partnership. Wed, 21 Nov 2018 07:24:00 -0500 https://elifesciences.org/for-the-press/d8cccde3/elife-coko-hindawi-limited-and-digirati-commit-to-libero-for-open-source-publishing oa.new oa.elife oa.journals oa.publishers oa.open_science oa.libero oa.floss oa.publishing oa.platforms oa.infrastructure oa.coko oa.hindawi Today marks the launch of a new section of the eLife website to highlight research selected by our editors and described in plain language. The section will bring the eLife digests from the latest articles together in one place, giving scientists and non-scientists alike an easy way to keep up to date with new discoveries published in eLife. Mon, 15 Oct 2018 03:40:00 -0400 https://elifesciences.org/inside-elife/070981ed/elife-latest-digests-get-a-new-home oa.new oa.elife oa.open_science oa.summaries oa.gold oa.journals "eLife is therefore seeking a new Editor-in-Chief to lead our efforts to improve the communication of new research findings across the life and biomedical sciences." Fri, 17 Aug 2018 07:16:00 -0400 https://elifesciences.org/inside-elife/9a652340/elife-latest-looking-for-a-new-editor-in-chief oa.new oa.jobs oa.elife oa.gold oa.journals