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European Journal of Higher Education to trial transparent peer review model


The quality and integrity of peer review in Higher Education research has been put in the spotlight by the European Journal of Higher Education (EJHE), published by Taylor & Francis. All articles submitted from April 2023 will, if accepted, have their reviewer reports published at the same time, as part of a one-year pilot. The EJHE peer review process itself


will remain the same, with reports on manuscripts under consideration received from two or three referees before an editorial decision is made. However, when an article is published on Taylor & Francis Online, a link will be included to an open access report containing the anonymous peer reviews from all rounds of review. Authors and reviewers will be made aware of the policy before they submit an article or agree to review. The editors and associate editors


of EJHE, Marco Seeber, Manja Klemenčič, Michele Meoli and Cristina Sin, explain in a new editorial that, at a time when there are “threats to research ethics in scientific publishing”, they expect “publishing the peer review reports will showcase that the peer review process is rigorous, high-quality and fair". EJHE will be the first Higher Education research journal to operate a transparent


peer review model. It is also the first Taylor & Francis journal to do so, and the publisher will use the results of this pilot to inform plans being developed for other peer review programs. Katrina Hulme Cross, Portfolio Manager


for Taylor & Francis Higher Education journals, said: “Taylor & Francis is very supportive of innovative publishing models,


in fact all our F1000 platforms already operate transparent peer review. So, we were very keen to work with the EJHE editors to develop their idea for this trial, which has required a fair amount of planning and technology development. We now look forward to seeing what impact it has on improving the experience for authors, reviewers and readers.”


EMBO Press picks Springer Nature as publishing partner


EMBO Press has chosen Springer Nature to be its publishing partner from 1 January 2024. Authors who publish in EMBO Press journals will benefit from the global reach of Springer Nature’s leading journals. In addition, authors will have the option to transfer manuscripts between journals in the EMBO Press and Springer Nature portfolios. EMBO Press decided


recently that to advance global discoverability, transparency and availability of published research outcomes, all papers will be published with full gold open access (OA) from 2024, and curated source data will be


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posted with fully reproducible methods.


The journals, The EMBO Journal, EMBO Reports, EMBO Molecular Medicine, and Molecular Systems Biology, which publish high- value articles with important advances in all areas of biology and biomedical sciences from around the globe, join Springer Nature’s portfolio of around 600 fully OA journals, including Nature Communications, and more than 1,700 hybrid journals including Nature and the Nature research titles. Harsh Jegadeesan, Chief Publishing Officer at Springer Nature, said:“I am delighted to welcome EMBO Press to


Springer Nature and look forward to working together to advance equitable and market-leading open science and open access policies. This common goal, along with our shared focus on improving the research publishing experience, will accelerate our efforts to help address the world’s urgent challenges.” Fiona Watt, EMBO Director,


said: “We are proud of our journals and the services we offer authors and readers. We review our publishing partnerships on a regular basis. Out of the many expressions of interest that we received last year from both non-profit and for- profit publishers we chose Springer Nature because it best meets our needs at a time when science publishing is in considerable flux. EMBO Press has been consistently innovative since its inception, and we have chosen a publisher that will not only help us grow but also facilitate widespread adoption of the open science activities that we have piloted successfully.”


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