The following is a quick round up of recent eLife developments. If you have any questions or comments, feel free to contact us at http://www.elifesciences.org/contact. More information about eLife is available at http://www.elifesciences.org.
A flavour of things to come
eLifehas been considering submissions for around six weeks now, and already we've accepted a small number of outstanding manuscripts. One of these accepted articles is featured in the current issue ofScience.eLifeEditor-in-chief Randy Schekman describes how this came about on our blog.
eLife: Call for Submissions
We're accepting submissions for the much-anticipatedeLifejournal. Learn more at http://www.elifesciences.org/call-for-submissions/.
Connect with eLife editors at these upcoming conferences:
- The 22nd IUBMB (International Union for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology)Congress and the 37th FEBS (Federation of European Biochemical Societies)Congress,September 4-9, 2012, Seville, Spain
- The EMBO Meeting,September 23-25, 2012, Nice, France
- Society for Neuroscience's Neuroscience 2012, October 13-17, 2012 New Orleans, LA, USA
- The American Society for Cell Biology 2012 Annual Meeting, December 15-19, 2012, San Francisco, CA, USA
Email Darisa ( d.clarke@elifesciences.org) to connect with us.
Supplementary data
As we get our sleeves rolled up and start putting the journal together, we’re formulating our thoughts and policies on a host of issues at eLife. In our latest blog entry, Ian Mulvany, eLife's Head of Technology, shares where our thoughts are on the issue of supplementary data and data in general: http://www.elifesciences.org/supplementary-data/ .
A reviewers’ charter
Mariann Bienz and Kathy Weston's ‘Reviewers’ Charter’ has stirred up lots of conversation online. The charter is intended to focus the minds of researchers specifically on the role of reviewers. eLife supports the principles that Kathy and Mariann are putting forward, and we invite comment and further discussion of the idea — through comments on this page, through Twitter (#reviewerscharter), or via email to staff@elifesciences.org. Read more about the proposed charter here http://www.elifesciences.org/a-reviewers-charter/.
Questions & answers
We’ve posted eLife answers to important questions about our launch date, post-docs, open-access publishers, funding relationships, and more. Take a look at http://www.elifesciences.org/about/frequently-asked-questions/.
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