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<div style="font-family:Arial,Verdana,sans-serif;font-size:12px"><br></div><div style="font-family:Arial,Verdana,sans-serif;font-size:12px"><strong><span style="font-size:14px">eLife opens science to the public with new podcast series</span></strong><span style="font-size:14px"></span></div>
<div style="font-family:Arial,Verdana,sans-serif;font-size:12px"><br></div><div style="font-family:Arial,Verdana,sans-serif;font-size:12px">CAMBRIDGE, UK | July 17, 2013</div><div style="font-family:Arial,Verdana,sans-serif;font-size:12px">
<br></div><div style="font-family:Arial,Verdana,sans-serif;font-size:12px">eLife, the new open-access journal for outstanding research in the life and biomedical sciences, has partnered with The Naked Scientists to produce a podcast that will bring scientific results published in the journal to a wider audience. </div>
<div style="font-family:Arial,Verdana,sans-serif;font-size:12px"><br></div><div style="font-family:Arial,Verdana,sans-serif;font-size:12px">As an open-access venture, eLife works to put key scientific findings in the hands of more and different audiences – and to make reports more inviting, engaging, and interactive. eLife extends that effort today through partnership with The Naked Scientists, an award-winning team of broadcasters whose aim is to promote science to the general public. </div>
<div style="font-family:Arial,Verdana,sans-serif;font-size:12px"><br></div><div style="font-family:Arial,Verdana,sans-serif;font-size:12px">The first episode of the eLife podcast features interviews with the authors of five research articles that have been selected to reflect the quality and breadth of the science published in eLife since the journal was launched last year. These papers include: the discovery of a receptor for the hepatitis B and D viruses; research into the effects that fog has on car drivers; and the use of modern DNA sequencing technology to learn more about the origins of the potato famines of the 1840s. eLife deputy editor, Professor Fiona Watt of King’s College London, also explains how the journal is seeking to drive change in the world of scientific publishing.</div>
<div style="font-family:Arial,Verdana,sans-serif;font-size:12px"><br></div><div style="font-family:Arial,Verdana,sans-serif;font-size:12px">Episodes are freely accessible online and available to use and distribute under a Creative Commons Attribution License.</div>
<div style="font-family:Arial,Verdana,sans-serif;font-size:12px"><br></div><div style="font-family:Arial,Verdana,sans-serif;font-size:12px">“Important discoveries such as those published in eLife are relevant to a lot of people,” said Randy Schekman, eLife editor-in-chief. “The Naked Scientists have a committed following and a knack for making complicated stories accessible and interesting. Since our journal is freely available online, anyone listening to the eLife podcast will be able to read the full papers anytime.”</div>
<div style="font-family:Arial,Verdana,sans-serif;font-size:12px"><br></div><div style="font-family:Arial,Verdana,sans-serif;font-size:12px">The eLife podcast is the newest addition to the journal’s suite of tools to take open-access content farther on the web, which includes: the eLife digest, a short, plain-language summary prepared for every paper; Insights, expert commentaries solicited for select articles; and the eLife developer’s resource and API, where metadata for all eLife content maybe openly accessed, reused, and built upon. </div>
<div style="font-family:Arial,Verdana,sans-serif;font-size:12px"><br></div><div style="font-family:Arial,Verdana,sans-serif;font-size:12px">To be notified of new episodes of the eLife podcast, sign up for alerts at <a href="http://eLife.eLifesciences.org/podcast">http://eLife.eLifesciences.org/podcast</a>. </div>
<div style="font-family:Arial,Verdana,sans-serif;font-size:12px"><br></div><div style="font-family:Arial,Verdana,sans-serif;font-size:12px">Learn more about the eLife journal at <a href="http://eLife.eLifesciences.org">http://eLife.eLifesciences.org</a>. </div>
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<br></div><div style="font-family:Arial,Verdana,sans-serif;font-size:12px">About eLife </div><div style="font-family:Arial,Verdana,sans-serif;font-size:12px">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. The eLife journal is a platform for maximising the reach and influence of new discoveries and showcasing new approaches to the presentation, use, and assessment of research. As an open-access journal, eLife delivers 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. eLife is supported by the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, the Max Planck Society, and the Wellcome Trust. Learn more at <a href="http://elifesciences.org">elifesciences.org</a>.</div>
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