...The Howard Hughes Medical Institute, the Max Planck Society and the Wellcome Trust announce their support for a new, top-tier, open access journal for biomedical and life sciences research...
...Randy W. Schekman, a distinguished cell biologist and the 14th editor of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, named as the first editor of a new journal that the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, the Max Planck Society, and the Wellcome Trust aim to launch in the coming year...
...Mark N. Patterson, director of publishing at PLoS, is named managing executive editor of a new open-access research journal that the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, the Max Planck Society, and the Wellcome Trust are launching in the next year...
...The senior editorial team comprised of internationally-renowned, active researchers from Europe, North America and Asia is announced. They operate independently of the founding organizations and will ensure fair, swift and high-quality editorial decisions...
...eLife, the new funder–researcher collaboration and forthcoming journal for the best in life and biomedical science, reveals the reviewing editors who will help deliver on its promise of an editorial process to better serve science and scientists...
...eLife opened for submissions in mid-June, and within two months about 100 submissions had been received.
...The new open-access journal eLife launches, making its first content available in PubMed Central. In addition to publishing science of the highest quality, the journal aims to improve both the peer-review process and the presentation of new research results...
...eLife, the open-access journal for outstanding advances in life science and biomedicine, reveals a fresh approach to presenting and using scientific content on its new website...
..."It is time for the research community to rethink how the outputs of scientific research are evaluated and, as the San Francisco Declaration on Research Assessment makes clear, this should involve replacing the journal impact factor with a broad range of more meaningful approaches"...
...eLife Lens makes using scientific articles easier by making it possible to explore figures, figure descriptions, references and more – without losing your place in the article text...
...eLife agrees to be the publisher for a project that will systematically assess the fraction of high-impact cancer studies whose major results can readily be reproduced...
..."we’re very pleased to announce that fourteen talented and passionate junior investigators have joined us as members of the “eLife Early-career advisory group.” These individuals, who include students, post-doctoral fellows, and junior group leaders from ten countries, will -- alongside the broader community of scientists behind eLife -- help make the eLife vision for transforming the way scientists communicate their research a reality"...
...eLife agrees to be the publisher for a project that will systematically assess the fraction of high-impact cancer studies whose major results can readily be reproduced...
... Tools and Resources article allows authors to publish the details of new experimental techniques, datasets, software tools, and other resources...
...The first webinar in the postdoctoral fellowships series, heard about the Postdoctoral Fellowships and Career Development Awards offered by the Human Frontier Science Program (HFSP). These became the #ECRWednesday webinars which still run today...
...eLife announces that its three founders, the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, the Max Planck Society and the Wellcome trust have extended their support for the non-profit initiative...
...This new pool of reviewers includes early-stage, independent researchers who have been nominated by a member of eLife’s editorial board as having the expertise and responsiveness to begin to serve as a regular peer reviewer. The pool is now publicly available to authors when searching for suitable reviewers during the submissions process...
...eLife Continuum is our open-source platform of services and applications to help publishers do more with everything they publish...
...Authors are now able to submit a preprint to bioRxiv while submitting their research to eLife...
...eLife begins using GitHub to ensure versions of cited code within an article persists...
...To help our Early-Career Advisory Group maintain its energy, creativity and diversity in the future, eLife launches a process limiting the term of group members, inviting the broader early-career community to participate in the appointment of new members by running elections...
...The Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation, Sweden, added its weight to the funder-backed effort to reform science publishing, eLife...
...ecrLife is created as a place for early career researchers to share stories, ideas and experiences about their journey in science...
...Prachee Avasthi joins our Board of Directors, the first early-career researcher to join...
...150 Ambassadors join the program working to catalyse improvements in the way science is communicated and performed...
...Open annotation is introduced to enable website users to make comments, highlight important sections of articles and engage with the reading public online...
...eLife begins accepting submissions in Physics of Living Systems...
...eLife authors are now able to include a Key Resources Table in the Materials and Methods section of papers...
...eLife holds its first Innovation Sprint. Over two days 62 researchers, designers, developers, technologists, science communicators were brought together to bring cutting-edge technology to open research communication...
...eLife begins publishing reviewed work along with the reviewer reports, the decision letter, and the author response...
...A dedicated place on the eLife website is created for plain-language summaries of the latest research...
...Leading open-access advocate, Michael Eisen takes over from Randy Schekman as eLife's Editor-in-Chief...
...The Ben Barres Spotlight Awards are introduced to provide visibility and collaboration opportunities for scientists from underrepresented groups. We named our first winners and six runners-up in 2019. Since then we have run the awards yearly...
...Dr Pattinson joins eLife, bringing 12 years of experience in research communication and taking over from Mark Patterson...
...Sciety, a product developed by a team in eLife, launches for community-organisation and peer-led curation of preprints...
...eLife begins publishing computationally reproducible results to enrich their work with embedded code blocks and computed outputs to make results transparent, interactive and reproducible...
...A policy is introduced which enables authors, editors and reviewers to retroactively change their name in published papers and accompanying decision letters...
...eLife announces that from 2021 it will only review manuscripts already published as preprints and focuses its editorial process on producing public reviews to be posted alongside the preprint. This included the integration of MedRxiv into the submissions process...
...eLife and PREreview announce a new partnership to engage more researchers from diverse backgrounds in peer review...
...As eLife transitions to exclusively reviewing preprints, authors can now submit a manuscript to the journal and medRxiv at the same time...
...eLife announces its new approach to peer review and publishing in medicine, outlining aims to make peer-reviewed preprints a currency of trust in medicine...
...A space launches on the website for stories about how research culture is or should be evolving...
...eLife announces that from 2022 it will begin posting public reviews alongside the reviewed preprint...
...eLife and PREreview announce their work with AfricArXiv, Eider Africa and TCC Africa to develop a new peer-review training programme for early to mid-career researchers in Africa...
...eLife's four funders, the Howard Hughes Medical institute, Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation, the Max Planck Society and Wellcome extend their support for the non-profit organisation and the 'publish, then review' model for science publishing...
...eLife welcomes 150 Open Science Champions in response to the appetite among researchers to learn the latest best practices for making science accessible and equitable...
...Fiona Hutton joins as Head of Publishing, bringing 20 years of STM publishing experience to eLife...
...eLife and PREreview announce their continued partnership to engage more diverse communities of researchers in peer review...
...From early 2023, eLife will eliminate accept/reject decisions after peer review and focus on public reviews and assessments of preprints...
eLife published its first articles in October 2012 and has continued to innovate, challenge the traditional journal publishing system, and work to improve how research is practised and shared ever since. We celebrate these 10 years with a special collection of content, created and curated by eLife staff. Look back at the milestones and changes that have come to pass in the last 10 years, both in science and at eLife, as well as looking to the future and what’s coming next.
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