24th May, 2014

Opportunities to enhance

peer review processes

Mark Patterson

• Improved tools for pre-publication peer review process

• Support for portable peer review• Aggregation of post-publication review

Could do better…

Peer review at eLife

Full submission

Editor plus external

reviewer(s)

Decision after peer

review

Revision assessed by editor

Consultation amongst reviewers

Single set of instructions

Limit rounds of revision

The inspiration for…

eLife Lens http://lens.elifesciences.org/

How Lens works

In NLM XML most links are one-way

In Lens JSON we make two-way linksexplicit

XML JSON HTML

All of this happens in the browser via javascript

EJP TNQ

Journal management system Typesetters

80% XML80% XML

+ Lens

Deploying Lens in peer review

XML JSON HTML

What we’d also like to do

Authors edit in Lens

Reviewers annotate in Lens

• Transfer rejected articles and the review reports to another journal for a quick decision

• Aggregate post-publication review comments

What else could we do?

Ivan Grubisic Michael Aufreiter Graham Nott

Concept, prototypetesting, development

Front end, javascript, interface, development

XML workflows and back end, image processing

Ian Mulvany

Oversight, wizardry, enthusiasm

Acknowledgments