Hi,

Thanks for this Lorna, this is really interesting. I haven’t come across this and would be interested to hear what others think too.

What do they mean by “and so forth” given that there would be only one more journal, D, in their list?

I’d be curious to know what journal editors think about this: it would seem to take the hassle out of soliciting reviews for manuscripts from potential referees but editors may not like the loss of control?

Best wishes, Andrew

Hello,

Axios Review (http://axiosreview.org/) a new “independent peer review organization for evolutionary biology” has just appeared on my horizon and I was just wondering if anyone else had come across it and, if so, what your thoughts on it were?

The general idea seems to be that authors submit their articles to Axios along with a list of the journals that they would like to try and publish in; Axios will then carry out an “independent” review and refer the article to the most appropriate journal.  It all sounds quite promising until you get to the bit about authors having to pay $250 to use the service.

My guess is that most authors won’t have the funds to pay for this and so it won’t come to anything but presumably Axios would have thought about that before they went ahead and set it up.

Axios are currently trying to recruit journals to use their service; it came to my attention via an academic here who is on the editorial board of a journal that Axios are trying to sign up.

Lorna

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