Open access publisher BioMed Central, UK, has announced an increased involvement with Peerage of Science, stepping up to full membership for four of its journals - Frontiers in Zoology, BMC Ecology, BMC Evolutionary Biology and BMC Biology. Peerage of Science is a peer review initiative launched in 2011 with a mission of changing how peer review is done. The move to join this initiative is in response to feedback from editors at BioMed Central and the scientific community at large.
BioMed Central editors are now able to select high quality articles submitted to Peerage of Science for peer review , and extend 'publishing offers' to authors, inviting them to publish their manuscript in BioMed Central journals taking advantage of an expedited peer review. This benefits authors who may otherwise undergo unnecessary further peer review, possibly submitting to several journals and undergoing numerous rounds of review and rejections before finding the most appropriate home for their research. Readers also benefit from earlier publication of high quality research.
By joining as full members, BioMed Central will be further meeting the needs of ecologists, evolutionary biologists and researchers in other involved disciplines, and engaging with the communities in which they work.
