FAIRsharing and DataCite have joined forces with a group of publisher representatives, including eLife, to develop criteria for identifying and selecting data repositories.
Michael Eisen, eLife’s Editor-in-Chief, reflects on lessons learned from a recent peer-review trial, and describes how eLife aims to make peer review more effective.
A new approach to peer review resulted in a moderately higher acceptance rate, with all the issues raised by reviewers addressed by the authors in the vast majority of revised submissions.