<div dir="ltr"><div style="font-size:13px"><font color="#000000" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">[Apologies for cross-posting]</font></div><div style="font-size:13px"><font color="#000000" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br></font></div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" color="#000000" style="font-size:13px">Hi all,</font><div style="font-size:13px"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" color="#000000"><br></font></div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" color="#000000" style="font-size:13px">Of interest, eLife has published its 2015 annual report, detailing our costs of publishing versus those of our technology innovation and development.</font><div style="font-size:13px"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" color="#000000"><u></u></font></p></div><div style="font-size:13px"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" color="#000000"> <u></u><u></u></font></p></div><div style="font-size:13px"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" color="#000000">Every year since 2012, eLife has published an annual report on activities along with our US Form 990 (required for our type of non-profit organisation) and our audited financial accounts. This year, we present a deeper view of our 2015 financials, covering publishing and non-publishing expenses. <u></u><u></u></font></p></div><div style="font-size:13px"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" color="#000000"> <u></u><u></u></font></p></div><div style="font-size:13px"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" color="#000000">As part of our ambition to change how science publishing works, especially among highly selective journals, we hope that being transparent about our costs will help set a future course for research communication that is efficient and sustainable.<u></u><u></u></font></p></div><div style="font-size:13px"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" color="#000000"> <u></u><u></u></font></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" color="#000000">eLife&#39;s Executive Director, Mark Patterson, and Head of External Relations, Jennifer McLennan, have written a blog post that provides further information about our costs (<a href="https://elifesciences.org/elife-news/inside-elife-what-it-costs-publish" target="_blank" style="font-size:13px">https://elifesciences.org/<wbr>elife-news/inside-elife-what-<wbr>it-costs-publish</a>) and the Times Higher Education featured a news piece: <u></u></font><a href="https://www.timeshighereducation.com/news/elife-reveals-publication-costs-spark-debate-journal-prices" target="_blank" style="font-size:13px">https://www.<wbr>timeshighereducation.com/news/<wbr>elife-reveals-publication-<wbr>costs-spark-debate-journal-<wbr>prices</a></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:13px;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt"><br></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:13px;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Our 2015 annual report is also available to view here: </span><a href="https://2015.elifesciences.org/" target="_blank" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">https://2015.elifescienc<wbr>es.org</a><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">.</span><br></p></div><div style="font-size:13px"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" color="#000000"><br></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" color="#000000">Please let me know if you would like any further information.</font></p></div><div style="font-size:13px"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" color="#000000"> </font></p></div><div style="font-size:13px"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" color="#000000">Kind regards,</font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" color="#000000"><br></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" color="#000000">Emily</font></p></div></div><div><br></div>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><p><img src="http://cdn.elifesciences.org/images/elife_final_logo_rgb.jpg" width="96" height="39"><br></p><p>Emily Packer<br>Press Officer</p><p>+44 1223 855373 (office)</p><p><a href="http://elifesciences.org/" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank">http://elifesciences.org</a></p><p>eLife Sciences Publications, Ltd is a limited liability non-profit non-stock corporation incorporated in the State of Delaware, USA, with company number 5030732, and is registered in the UK with company number FC030576 and branch number BR015634 at the address First Floor, 24 Hills Road, Cambridge CB2 1JP.</p></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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