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  1. Plain-language Summaries: How to write an eLife digest
    Each eLife digest is published in a prominent position, immediately below the abstract of its research article, and some are republished on the social publishing platform, Medium.

    This month we also launched a brand-new section of the eLife website that will also bring all the digests from the latest articles together in one place, giving scientists and non-scientists alike an easy way to keep up to date with new discoveries.

    More details here.

    Stuart King, Associate Features Editor, eLife

  2. Plain-language Summaries: Results of the 2016 eLife digest reader survey
    Visibility – make digests easier to find online, especially for general readers who don’t want to read the full research article.

    To help with this goal, the latest eLife digests can now also be found in their own dedicated section of the eLife website. More details here.

    Stuart King, Associate Features Editor, eLife

  3. Plain-language Summaries of Research: An inside guide to eLife digests
    In addition, we will be increasing our efforts to reach new audiences, and make digests more discoverable in general.

    To help with these efforts, the latest eLife digests can now also be found in their own dedicated section of the eLife website. More details here.

  4. Plain-language Summaries of Research: An inside guide to eLife digests
    Each eLife digest is published in a prominent position, immediately below the abstract of its research article. However, the intended audience also includes people who do not normally visit journal websites. To reach more of these readers, we regularly re-publish some digests on Medium, a social publishing platform.

    This month we also launched a brand-new section of the eLife website that will also bring all the digests from the latest articles together in one place, giving scientists and non-scientists alike an easy way to keep up to date with new discoveries.

    More details here.

    Stuart King, Associate Features Editor, eLife

  5. Plain-language Summaries of Research: Writing for different readers
    However, the continuous growth in the number of papers accepted for publication meant that in 2016 we had to, reluctantly, start publishing papers without digests.

    To clarify, this could probably read as "start publishing some papers without digests". Since the start of 2016, we've continued to publish 50–60 digests each month.

    This month we also launched a brand-new section of the eLife website that will bring all the digests from the latest articles together in one place, giving scientists and non-scientists alike an easy way to keep up to date with new discoveries.

    More details here.

    Stuart King, Associate Features Editor, eLife

  6. Thalidomide: Unlocking a dark past
    teratogenic effects

    Teratogens are substances that may cause birth defects via a toxic effect on an embryo or fetus. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teratology

  7. Peer Review: The pleasure of publishing
    Our goal at eLife is to publish papers that our reviewers and editors find authoritative, rigorous, insightful, enlightening or just beautiful. Of course, beauty is in the eye of the beholder, and ideas about what is beautiful can change over time. Nonetheless, some things will always be truly beautiful, such as great art and great music, and the same is true for great science

    Today I've had the privilege of representing eLife at ASBMB2018 (part of EB2108) in San Diego. I've been talking with scientists at all stages of their career, finding out about their research and answering their questions about about eLife, both the journal and the wider initiative. On several occasions, I found myself recommending someone read this Editorial because I think it summarises what our editors are looking for when assessing manuscripts for eLife in a particularly elegant way. This quote especially stood out for me.

  8. Paleontology: These feet were made for walking
    a Google search for "Laetoli footprints" returns 52,600 hits.

    18 months later, this figure has now gone up to 64,300.

  9. Science Policy: Reforming research assessment
    The recently released San Francisco Declaration on Research Assessment (http://www.ascb.org/SFdeclaration.html)

    The San Francisco Declaration on Research Assessment can now be accessed here: https://sfdora.org/

  10. Plain-language Summaries of Research: An inside guide to eLife digests
    Being aimed at a more general audience, the digests have always been handled by the Features editors who also look after Insights, interviews, podcasts and the other magazine-style content in the journal

    You can find all of this kind of content on eLife's Magazine page.

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