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NPRC: Revolutionizing the Publishing Industry [article available]
The newly-founded Neuroscience Peer Review Consortium (NPRC) is an alliance of neuroscience journals that have agreed to accept manuscript reviews from other members of the Consortium.
Under this arrangement, reviews for a manuscript
that is not accepted by one Consortium journal can be forwarded to a different
Consortium journal. The NPRC aims to expedite the peer review of original research in neuroscience
by reducing the burden on reviewers, while maintaining the rigor of the peer
review process.
The impetus for the consortium came from one of the working groups of the
PubMed Plus Conference, organized by the Society for Neuroscience and sponsored
by the INCF, in June 2007. The INCF was chosen as a neutral venue to host the
consortium website and provide administrative assistance.
The Consortium will become operational in January 2008. Visit the NPRC website
at http://nprc.incf.org to read more details
for authors, editors, reviewers and publishers.
