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Cutting the Time Spent on Manuscript Reviews: INCF-hosted Consortium Revolutionizes Neuroscience Publishing Industry

A growing collection of neuroscience journals, known as the Neuroscience Peer Review Consortium (NPRC, http://nprc.incf.org), intends to decrease the time scientists spend publishing. Journals participating in the group have decided on a system of review forwarding that could benefit everyone involved in neuroscience publishing – from authors to reviewers to editors.

Neuroinformatics Projects Attract Attention at the 2007 SfN Meeting

Neuroinformatics experienced quite a boom in 2007: the growing field had features in the Spring 2007 and Summer 2007 issues of SfN’s Neuroscience Quarterly, its own Society for Neuroscience (SfN)-sponsored social at SfN’s annual meeting in San Diego, USA, and many more poster presentations and featured lectures related to neuroinformatics were present at SfN 2007 compared to SfN 2006.