Preprints & Incremental Sharing

eLife’s New Publishing Model

Starting in 2023, eLife will no longer make accept/reject decisions but will publish all peer-reviewed papers on its website as Reviewed Preprints, including an eLife assessment and public reviews. Authors can respond and either revise/resubmit or declare it as the final Version of Record.

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Launched

| Updated: 21 Nov 2022

Organization:

eLife Sciences Publication
Home page | Project page

Keywords:
Early Sharing, Peer Review, Policy, Publishing

Project Goals

In choosing to no longer reduce our assessments to a single publishing decision, we are relinquishing the traditional journal role of gatekeeper in favor of a reviewed and assessed preprint system that restores autonomy to authors – ensuring that they will be evaluated based on what, not where, they publish.
A parallel aim is for reviewed and assessed preprints to be used as currency in research assessment in lieu of journal title.

Deliverables

Switch to new model on Jan 31st 2023 via new submission system, eLife Reviewed Preprint platform, and community support statement (via PR)
Evidence regarding the outcomes of this model by developing – in collaboration with ICOR – an experimental design that permits data collection and evaluation
New metrics for research assessment

What's Needed

Visibility

Technology

Partners

Links

eLife’s New Model: Changing the way you share your research

eLife’s Peer Review Process

eLife Review Process FAQs (pdf)

Scientific Publishing: Peer review without gatekeeping

The eLife Publishing Model (video)