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Member Record: eLife

Title eLife
Class Professional Publisher (Medium)
URL https://elifesciences.org/
Owner eLife Sciences Publications, Ltd
Address 1st Floor
24 Hills Road
Cambridge, CB2 1JP
Copyright link All content is subject to a Creative Commons Attribution license
Copyright policy eLife is an open-access publication. All results are available to a worldwide audience, for free, immediately on publication. Everyone has the right to use the results without restriction (using a Creative Commons Attribution license). Citing, downloading, re-using, reproducing, re-purposing, and building on material published in eLife can be done without requesting permission from the authors or the publisher, provided full attribution to the authors is given. We also deposit all content into PubMed Central, as well as sites such as Mendeley, scribd, and Github, and we make article data openly available through an API.
Complaint email staff@elifesciences.org
Complaint policy If authors believe that their article has been erroneously rejected by eLife, they should contact the editorial office. Appeals are first sent to the appropriate Senior editor for consideration. Any other complaints should also be directed to the editorial office in the first instance.
Publication charge link https://elifesciences.org/elife-news/inside-elife-setting-fee-publication
Publication charge policy Publishing in eLife is free of charge for an initial period. All papers submitted from January 1, 2017 will be subject to the fee if they are accepted for publication, although authors with insufficient funding will be eligible for a fee waiver.
OA journals One: eLife
OA articles The list of articles as they are published is available here: eLifesciences.org/search
Peer review policy https://elifesciences.org/about#process:
  • Our Senior editors decide within a few days if a submission is appropriate for in-depth peer review, and assign a member of the Board of Reviewing Editors to oversee the review process if so.
  • The Reviewing editor will usually review the article him or herself, alongside one or two additional external reviewers.
  • The reviewers discuss their individual recommendations online, communicating openly with one another before a decision is reached. If we ask for revisions, the Reviewing editor incorporates those requirements into a single set of instructions. If the article is rejected after peer review, the full reviews are usually included along with the reasons for rejection.
  • Further rounds of revision are largely eliminated.
    • When an article is published, we also post the most substantive parts of the decision letter and the author responses, subject to author agreement.