“In the 10 years since eLife’s inception, we have made significant progress in improving how research in the life and biomedical sciences is communicated. Here we share our vision for a future where a diverse, global community of scientists produces trusted and open results for the benefit of all.
This vision has evolved in response to the changing publishing landscape – namely the increasing popularity of preprints among the life science community, including eLife authors. We are working to achieve our vision in three ways – with the eLife journal, open-source technology development, and our community engagement activities – all of which feed into our overarching ‘publish, review, curate’ mission that puts preprints first.
To succeed in realising our vision, we will:
Continue to develop the ‘publish, review, curate’ model, and encourage its adoption among authors, funders and content curators such as societies;
Build a platform for the ‘publish, review, curate’ model that is open-source, readily adaptable and addresses community needs;
Work with the community of scientists and content curators on new ways to improve the whole research communication process in the ‘publish, review, curate’ world;
And operate a journal for biology and medicine that maintains the highest standards, carries influence in the community and covers its costs….”