Open access publisher BioMed Central, UK, has announced that its journal Biology Direct - which operates a novel scheme of open peer review - has launched a new online submission system to make submission to the journal considerably more straightforward.
Manuscripts published in the journal appear alongside named reviews, with the authors given the option to provide a public rebuttal. The introduction of an in-house team has considerably lessened the workload for authors wishing to submit a manuscript. Authors were previously responsible for soliciting the reviews by contacting members of the journal's Editorial Board directly. The new system allows authors to select potentially suitable reviewers from the Editorial Board at the time of submission. The in-house team then contacts the suggested reviewers on the author's behalf.
Biology Direct publishes original research articles, hypotheses, opinions, comments, discovery notes and reviews in three subject areas: Genomics, Bioinformatics and Systems Biology; Immunology; and Mathematical Biology. The journal publishes primarily articles that address salient aspects of fundamental problems in biology and, ideally, offer new perspectives on such problems.
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