Preprinting for earlier sharing and faster publication
Submit early-stage research outputs and instantly convert them into publication-ready, machine-readable formats.
Solutions
Building open-source publishing software to further open science
Through our partnerships, we’re working towards an interoperable and modular publishing ecosystem for the benefit of the global scientific community.
The traditional academic publishing system is outdated. It stifles innovation, restricts equity, and fails to adequately connect research outputs or support machine-readable science. That’s why eLife Pathways exists: to bring people together, foster collaboration across the ecosystem, create better ways to share research, and build a strong, shared foundation that empowers the global research community.
An innovative, open and equitable ecosystem
Our vision is to build open-source tools that integrate easily with both new and existing scholarly systems. By focusing on flexibility and shared standards, we enable platforms to work together seamlessly and strengthen the open ecosystem.
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Flexible publishing workflows and tooling
Configure customisable editorial workflows with integrated task management and AI-assisted publishing tools.
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Post-publication review and assessment
Decentralise the peer review process to build greater trust, transparency, and accountability in how research is evaluated.
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Curation, aggregation and community-review
Enable communities to reuse, remix, and synthesise research outputs while integrating expert commentary and social discourse.
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Open metadata, standards and schemas
Seamlessly connect tools and research outputs using shared schemas, open metadata, and universal licensing.
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Modular, interactive and machine-readable publishing
Publish individual research units—like data, code, methods, or figures—designed specifically for utility, interaction, and reuse.
Our Technology
Through eLife Pathways, we are enhancing and integrating our open-source infrastructure to serve the wider open science ecosystem. Our established platforms, Sciety and Kotahi, will be further developed to optimise publishing workflows, improve access to open research information, and support the needs of modular, machine-readable research.
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An open-source, end-to-end publishing platform for preprint servers, preprint review, journals and micropublications. Kotahi supports AI-driven, customisable workflows to make scientific publishing faster, more modular, and machine-readable.
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Is a free, open-source platform that aggregates preprint evaluations from across the global scholarly network. By bringing discoveries, reviews, and curation into one shared space, Sciety helps researchers filter and discover the latest research.
Partnerships and Collaborations
Over the past decade, eLife and its collaborators have built open, community-driven software. By adopting shared standards and seamless design, we ensure our tools are transparent, reusable, and built to work together.
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Decentralised, interoperable standards to link repository research with external services.
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Enabling researchers to provide and receive constructive feedback on preprints.
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Reproducible, open and interoperable documents with built in scientific intelligence.
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A community-endorsed framework capturing the context and processes behind document creation.
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A set of tools working together to generate full XML documents.
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Using open standards to facilitate open discourse directly on published content for eLife and beyond.
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A novel web experience streamlining the process for researchers, reviewers, authors, and readers.