A Pilot Partnership to Find Private Support for Unfunded Applications
When I was an editor at JAMA, we often considered papers that were strong, received favorable reviews, and yet could not be published for lack of space. As it turned out, we had an option other than outright rejection: we could offer authors a user-friendly pathway by which their papers, and the reviews that went with them, could be forwarded for consideration at another journal (e.g. JAMA Internal Medicine). Later, when I came to NIH I wondered whether it was even theoretically possible for a funding agency to do something similar: arrange a way for highly meritorious but unfunded projects to find their way to willing, ev...
Source: NIH Extramural Nexus - March 23, 2016 Category: Research Authors: Mike Lauer Tags: blog Open Mike General New Resources OnPAR public-private partnership Source Type: funding
