eLife is an open-access journal and technology provider that publishes promising research in the life and biomedical sciences. This is their implementation of a submission and peer review system based on Coko PubSweet and xPub.
The first two paragraph of The Editorial Process section:
The Editorial Process
eLife is a selective journal that publishes promising research in all areas of biology and medicine. Leading academic researchers on our editorial board evaluate all new submissions. The editors elect to send around 30% of manuscripts, those that they believe are of the highest scientific standards and importance, to external experts for in-depth peer review. More than half of the articles that are selected for peer review are ultimately published in eLife, for an overall acceptance rate of around 16%.
To increase the accessibility of research and ensure that it is communicated rapidly, we expect authors to post their research as a preprint (using preprint servers such as bioRxiv, medRxiv, or Authorea), either before submission to eLife or during the review process. The advantages of posting a preprint have been summarised by ASAPbio. Authors can upload a preprint to bioRxiv or Authorea and then transfer their files directly to eLife for consideration, they can have their work transferred to bioRxiv during the full submission process, or they can post the preprint themselves to an appropriate preprint server at any point before acceptance.
Hi @hdrury1,
Andy made some changes to the Authors guide, please update them in Reviewer to match:
The instructions for Review Articles: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1EfYytNzcXeZqPubgJwrnakE4fz8mZ19ECI8m_G_I1Es/edit
The first two paragraph of The Editorial Process section:
The Editorial Process
eLife is a selective journal that publishes promising research in all areas of biology and medicine. Leading academic researchers on our editorial board evaluate all new submissions. The editors elect to send around 30% of manuscripts, those that they believe are of the highest scientific standards and importance, to external experts for in-depth peer review. More than half of the articles that are selected for peer review are ultimately published in eLife, for an overall acceptance rate of around 16%.
To increase the accessibility of research and ensure that it is communicated rapidly, we expect authors to post their research as a preprint (using preprint servers such as bioRxiv, medRxiv, or Authorea), either before submission to eLife or during the review process. The advantages of posting a preprint have been summarised by ASAPbio. Authors can upload a preprint to bioRxiv or Authorea and then transfer their files directly to eLife for consideration, they can have their work transferred to bioRxiv during the full submission process, or they can post the preprint themselves to an appropriate preprint server at any point before acceptance.
Thanks :)