On January 31 2023, we launched our new model for publishing, combining the speed and transparency of preprints with the expert scrutiny and evaluation of peer review. We committed to publish everything that we reviewed. We would publish preprints together with public reviews and assessments.

In the new model, authors still receive a high-quality peer-reviewed eLife publication. However, it's different in two key ways. Firstly, all papers that are invited for review are published on the eLife website as a Reviewed Preprint, giving readers an earlier view of the reviews and editor's assessment.

Now before we go any further, it's important to note that eLife is not a predatory journal—you know, the journals that publish anything, even nonsense papers about “weird” birds and “the educational value of high school students driving into the desert and making drugs.”