eLife: NGO against COVID-19 Non-funding Support
Entity: eLife
Category: Non-Governmental
Programme Title: "COVID-19 Rapid Review Initiative"
Link: https://oaspa.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/COVID-19-WORKING-GROUP_v2.0.pdf
Contact (1): sarah.greaves@hindawi.com
Contact (2): phil.hurst@royalsociety.org
Summary: A group of publishers and scholarly communications organisations – initially comprising eLife, Hindawi, PeerJ, PLOS, Royal Society, F1000 Research, FAIRsharing, Outbreak Science, and PREreview – is working on initiatives and standards to speed up the review process while ensuring rigour and reproducibility remain paramount. The group has issued an open letter of intent and launched an initiative to ensure a rapid, efficient, yet responsible review of COVID-19 content.
The initiative is asking for volunteer reviewers with suitable expertise relevant to COVID-19, from all career stages and disciplines, to add their names to a 'rapid reviewer list'. By doing so, these reviewers will be committing to rapid reviewing times, and upfront agreement that their reviews and identity can be shared among participating publishers and journals if submissions get rerouted for any reason.
