<div dir="ltr"><font color="#000000" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">[Apologies for cross-posting]</font><div><font color="#000000" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><font color="#000000" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Hi all,</font></div><div><font color="#000000" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><span id="gmail-docs-internal-guid-301594de-9a21-3208-168e-b3d82e1d65fa"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><font color="#000000" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="background-color:transparent;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Last week,</span><span style="background-color:transparent;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> eLife announced the introduction of a publication fee of $2,500, effective from January 1, 2017.</span></font></p><font color="#000000" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br></font><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><font color="#000000" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Introducing a fee that covers our marginal costs is part of our long-term strategy for the health and success of the journal. We hope that our transparent, cost-based approach will help drive a more effective and efficient marketplace for scientific publishing.</font></span></p><font color="#000000" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br></font><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><font color="#000000" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">For more details about the fee and how we’ve set it, eLife’s Mark Patterson, Executive Director, and Jennifer McLennan, Head of External Relations, have written a blog post: </span><a href="https://elifesciences.org/elife-news/inside-elife-setting-fee-publication" style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">https://elifesciences.org/elife-news/inside-elife-setting-fee-publication</span></a></font></p><font color="#000000" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br></font><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><font color="#000000" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">An eLife Editorial about the fee is available to read here: </span><a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.7554/eLife.21230" style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">http://dx.doi.org/10.7554/eLife.21230</span></a></font></p><font color="#000000" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br></font><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><font color="#000000" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">And Nature has also featured a news piece: </span><a href="http://www.nature.com/news/open-access-journal-elife-to-start-charging-fees-1.20700" style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">http://www.nature.com/news/open-access-journal-elife-to-start-charging-fees-1.20700</span></a></font></p><font color="#000000" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br></font><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><font color="#000000" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Please let me know if you&#39;d like more information.</font></span></p><font color="#000000" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br></font><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><font color="#000000" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Kind regards,</font></span></p><font color="#000000" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br></font><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><font color="#000000" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Emily</font></span></p><div><br></div></span>-- <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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