New service will peer review unpublished manuscripts before journal submissions

The nonprofit life sciences organization ASAPBio and the European Molecular Biology Organization press have teamed up to launch Review Commons, a preprint platform where researchers can submit their unpublished manuscripts for peer review. In the current system, rejections and revisions requested by peer reviewers often prolong the publishing process and this new system looks to cut down on such delays. Once the preprint is peer-reviewed through Review Commons, researchers will have a better sense of which journals are ideally suited for publishing their work. At the same time, the new service is also affiliated with 17 life science journals across six publishers — including the PLoS family of journals and EMBO’s journals — and could help scientists fast-track their work into one of these journals.