As one of its inaugural Associate Editors, I am glad to announce the launch today of the British Medical Journal鈥檚 open-science outlet: BMJ Open Science.
We have put in place and adopted state-of-the art policies for the conduct and publication of basic and pre-clinical open science in biology and the biomedical fields (e.g., guidelines from the Center for Open Science).
- All articles will be open access, with flat-rate publishing charges waived during the launch period.
- The journal has an open-data policy and follows the听TOP (Transparency and Openness Promotion)听guidelines. This means听the datasets, analytical methods (including statistical code) and research materials used in your study听should be openly available.
- It operates under open peer review. This means reviewer reports and names are published alongside听accepted articles. Open peer review promotes transparency and accountability for peer reviewers,听editors, and authors.
We designate reviews with a DOI and reviewers have the ability to upload the review to their ORCID听profile.
-听It is mandatory for submitting authors to have an ORCID upon revision.听
-听BMJ Open Science听fully supports and encourages the archiving of preprints (e.g. from bioRxiv)
- The journal will focus on quality of the research reports: negative results can be submitted for consideration.听 听
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