What is "elife"

eLife is a peer-reviewed open-access scientific journal for the biomedical and life sciences, It was launched at the end of 2012. The Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Max Planck Society, and Wellcome Trust established the journal following a workshop held in 2010 at the Janelia Farm Research Campus. Together, these organizations provided the initial funding to support the business and publishing operations of eLife, and in 2016 the organizations committed USD$26 million to continue publication of the journal.

The editor-in-chief is Randy Schekman ( University of California, Berkeley); deputy editors are Fiona Watt ( King's College London), Detlef Weigel ( Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology) and Eve Marder ( Brandeis University). Editorial decisions are made largely by senior editors and members of eLife's board of reviewing editors; all of whom are active scientists working in fields ranging from human genetics and neuroscience to biophysics and epidemiology.