[BOAI] Last day to register for the eLife online open house

[Jennifer McLennan]

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P.S. on the following: Mark Patterson (eLife Managing Executive Editor),
Ian Mulvany (our head of technology), and I will also be on hand. We look
forward to having you!

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*eLife is holding an online Open House to share news on the development of
its anticipated open-access journal for the very best in life science and
biomedical research. Join us.*

eLife is the new researcher-driven initiative to reshape science
communication launched in collaboration by three prestigious biomedical
research funders: the Howard Hughes Medical Institute (USA), Max Planck
Society (Germany), and the Wellcome Trust (UK). Announced in June 2011, the
first aim of the initiative is to launch an open-access journal for the
most important advances in the life sciences and biomedicine. The
*eLife *journal
will showcase papers identified through a new rapid, fair, and constructive
review process, and serve as a platform for innovation in the presentation
and use of research content.

While eLife presses toward launch of the journal by the end of 2012,
interest in how this unique funder-researcher collaboration could change
science and scientific publishing grows. Media coverage has been extensive
and has included detailed stories on one of *eLife*’s first accepted papers
– just weeks after we opened for submissions.

On September 12, please join us for an online Open House to learn more
about what the initiative aims to do, the scope of the journal, how the
review process is different, the papers that have been accepted, the status
of launch, and more. eLife Editor-in-chief Randy Schekman – Professor of
Molecular and Cell Biology at the University of California (Berkeley), and
an Investigator at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute – will host.
Scientists, students, potential reviewers, members of the eLife community,
librarians, research funders, publishers, open-access advocates – all – are
welcome.

The eLife online Open House will be held:

Wednesday, September 12, 2012

9:00 – 10:00AM U.S. Pacific time

(12:00 – 1:00PM U.S. Eastern | 5:00 – 6:00PM UK)

To determine the time in another world region, visit
http://www.worldtimeserver.com/convert_time_in_US-CA.aspx?y=2012&mo=9&d=12&h=9&mn=0

Please register to attend by September 10 at
http://www.elifesciences.org/crm/civicrm/event/info?id=7&reset=1.

To share your questions in advance, post to the eLife Web site (
http://www.elifesciences.org/open-house), Tweet #eLifeopen, or email
d.clarke at elifesciences.org.

To learn more about eLife and the growing momentum behind the initiative,
visit elifesciences.org.

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*About eLife*

eLife is a unique collaboration between the funders and practitioners of
research to communicate ground-breaking discoveries in the life and
biomedical sciences in the most effective way. Set for launch in late 2012,
the *eLife* journal will be a platform for maximising the reach and
influence of new discoveries and to showcase new approaches to the
presentation, use, and assessment of research. As an open-access journal, *
eLife *will deliver access to content for free, online, immediately on
publication, and will encourage maximum possible reach and utility of the
content by publishing under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution
License, which is emerging as the gold standard for open-access publishing.
Learn more at elifesciences.org.


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Jennifer McLennan
Communications, eLife

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