Publisher John Wiley & Sons, Inc. has announced the launch of a six-month pilot program in partnership with F1000Research. The pilot offers authors whose articles do not meet the specific criteria for publication in five Wiley journals the option to submit their manuscript to F1000Research, giving authors a streamlined process to get their work quickly and easily published online.
F1000Research is an Open Science publishing platform for all life scientists, offering immediate publication and transparent refereeing. F1000Research publishes biological and medical research articles that meet a set of basic criteria within a few days of submission, after which they are formally peer reviewed using a completely open process.
The pilot program will help Wiley to assess the popularity of this service which will enable authors to quickly transfer manuscripts to a broad Open Access biomedical journal and to ascertain whether authors are open to the idea of publishing prior to peer review.
Journals taking part in the initial six month pilot include Journal of Separation Science; Electrophoresis; Plant, Cell & Environment; Journal of Medical Virology; and Journal of Pediatric Dermatology.
