Search
Items tagged with: scientificpublishing
MIT dropped its contract with Elsevier, the huge scientific journal company. Their library instead arranged alternate access to journals and tools for researchers to get them. They’re saving $2 million/year:
https://sparcopen.org/our-work/big-deal-knowledge-base/unbundling-profiles/mit-libraries/
#academicpublishing #OpenAccess #science #scientificpublishing
See all published Reviewed Preprints https://elifesciences.org/reviewed-preprints
Within themes, #eLife makes no distinction between old-style articles (where editors decided whether a manuscript is accepted) and reviewed preprints (where authors decide instead). Keep in mind both have the reviews attached, including as of recently a brief assessment paragraph summarizing, with a controlled vocabulary, the significance of findings and, more importantly, the strength of evidence.
See the subset of #eLife publications tagged as #neuroscience https://elifesciences.org/subjects/neuroscience
#ScientificPublishing #academia #eLife
Reviewed Preprints
Preprints that have been invited for review by eLife are published as Reviewed Preprints and include an eLife assessment, public reviews and a response from the authors (if available).eLife
Each eLife publication has an evaluation attached to it in the form of an assessment–be it negative or positive. Critically, authors decide whether to go forward with assessments as they are and go public, or to revise the manuscript and request re-review to improve both the manuscript and, consequently, the reviews and assessment.
In other words, nothing changed, except, it's the authors who decide how to move forward with their own manuscript, rather than the editors.
#ScientificPublishing #academia