Take that, Ingelfinger! eLife announces its media policy, sans embargoes and Ingelfinger (Embargo Watch)

By Ivan Oransky --

eLife, the new open-access journal funded by the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, the Max Planck Society, and the Wellcome Trust, announced its media policy earlier this week. (I was hoping to jump on this Monday, but despite being remarkably unaffected personally by Hurricane Sandy in midtown Manhattan, there were of course other considerations this week involving my family, my Reuters Health staff, and others — many of whom are still coping with the effects of the storm.)

The short version of this post: I love this policy.

Read the full article here.

(Reprinted with permission of Ivan Oransky, Embargo Watch)