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Life Science Alliance, from the Academic Editors

View ORCID ProfileJulia Promisel Cooper  Correspondence email, View ORCID ProfileFlorent Ginhoux  Correspondence email, View ORCID ProfileSebastian Jessberger  Correspondence email, View ORCID ProfileMichael Overholtzer  Correspondence email
Julia Promisel Cooper
1Telomere Biology Section, Laboratory of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA
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2Singapore Immunology Network, Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR), Biopolis, Singapore
3Shanghai Institute of Immunology, Shanghai JiaoTong University School of Medicine, Shanghai, China
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4Laboratory of Neural Plasticity, Faculties of Medicine and Science, Brain Research Institute, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
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5Cell Biology Program, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY, USA
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Published 20 March 2018. DOI: 10.26508/lsa.201800044
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Life Science Alliance is a new not-for-profit, open access journal that represents a unique alliance between three leading publishers: EMBO Press, Rockefeller University Press, and Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press. This transcontinental partnership brings exciting, inclusive breadth to Life Science Alliance, as this new journal will enable transfer of work from nine major journals: The EMBO Journal, EMBO Reports, Molecular Systems Biology, EMBO Molecular Medicine, Journal of Cell Biology, Journal of Experimental Medicine, Journal of General Physiology, Genes and Development, and Genome Research.

Why do we need another journal, and why this journal?

Life Science Alliance is a community-based journal that brings together carefully selected, rigorous research from diverse fields—from academic scientists, to academic scientists. Community-driven science has always been the spirit of the partner journals. Life Science Alliance streamlines the publication of valuable research referred to us from the nine partner journals or from direct submissions, through an editorial process led by academic editors and an advisory editorial board made up of our peers in research.

We want to optimize the editorial process

Well-performed, valuable research shouldn't suffer from the ever-present request for one more major experiment, often at the insistence of the proverbial “Reviewer 3”. We joined Life Science Alliance to promote an incisive, constructive review process that aims to select for valuable research without demanding excessive revisions and additions. Rigorously performed research of interest to others should be published with minimal delay. Period. We aim to be part of the solution to the excessive revision cycles that have become routine within the modern research publication process. As scientists we know the frustration and loss of time and resources that come with such a lengthy process, and with moving from one journal to the next. As academic editors for Life Science Alliance, we aim to prevent such frustration by providing an alternative. We routinely evaluate manuscripts that are recommended to us from the partner journals, based on in-hand reviews, inviting authors to transfer their work to Life Science Alliance with a clear outline of what is needed for publication. We are also committed to handling direct submissions with one set of referee reports and only one round of major revision. As academic editors, we participate actively in decisions—in particular focussing on the essential referee requests.

Effective change comes from a community-driven approach

The journal Life Science Alliance is first-of-its-kind in uniting not-for-profit publishers and employing the scientific community itself to change the way authors can publish their work. Our advisory editorial board includes not only established leaders but also numerous up-and-coming stars in their respective fields. To change the culture, we need to empower the whole community, prominently including junior faculty as well as postdocs, to review and select valuable research and to decide: What kind of science should we be publishing? What constitutes a fair and constructive review process? How do we improve the process? This is truly a community-driven journal. We invite input from the community and will continue to do so as Life Science Alliance evolves.

  • Received February 28, 2018.
  • Accepted February 28, 2018.
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