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> From: "Randy Schekman" <schek...@berkeley.edu> > Subject: The eLife journal is now online. > Date: December 13, 2012 10:00:09 AM PST > To: Axel Brunger <brun...@stanford.edu> > Reply-To: "Randy Schekman" <schek...@berkeley.edu> > > Dear Axel, > > In June 2011, three of the most prestigious research funding bodies in the > world came together in a collaboration to inspire change in the communication > of scientific discoveries. The first product of this collaboration is an > open-access journal for the most influential research in life science and > biomedicine, which will be a platform for increasing the quality of peer > review and showing how technology can be used to enhance the presentation of > scientific results: eLife. > > Over the past year and a half, we’ve introduced the eLife logo, website, and > the 200-strong editorial board, we announced the call for papers, and we > published our first articles. > > Today marks the culmination of eLife’s first phase, with the launch of the > fully functional eLife journal website. > > On the journal website, we can now: > > Read important papers across life science and biomedicine, read comments and > commentary by experts and colleagues, and get a sense of the kind of work > that eLife is publishing. The senior editors have shared their views on the > value of some of the papers they’ve evaluated and selected in comments you’ll > encounter throughout the site. I’ve offered some highlights at > http://www.elifesciences.org/great-science-is-at-the-heart. > > Find out how we’re planning to take advantage of digital media. The > presentation of content is clean and distraction-free, inviting authors to > tell their stories in full and readers to delve deeply into the research. > Scrutinize figures and their supplements, tables, and video in line with the > article text; download data sets; view article-level metrics; and more. I’ve > included some links for you to explore below. > And this is just a starting point. Think of the eLife journal website as a > continually evolving platform for introducing and disseminating research. Let > us know what enhancements you’d like to see next. Judge for yourself at > http://elife.elifesciences.org. > > Thank you. > > Randy > > > Randy Schekman > HHMI Investigator / Editor-in-Chief, eLife > Dept. of Mol. and Cell Biology, Li Ka Shing Center > UC Berkeley, Berkeley, CA 94720-3370 > schek...@berkeley.edu > > ________________________ > > See how we display figures and supplements: > http://elife.elifesciences.org/content/1/e00013#F4 > Watch videos in line with the article text: > http://elife.elifesciences.org/content/1/e00007#media-1 > Read the editors’ decision letter and author response: > http://elife.elifesciences.org/content/1/e00013#decision-letter > Download data sets: http://elife.elifesciences.org/content/1/e00049#F2 > > >
