Editorial

Teaching new dogs old tricks

Miranda Robertson

• Correspondence: Miranda Robertson editorial@jbiol.com

Journal of Biology 2009, 8:22 doi:10.1186/jbiol136

Published: 17 April 2009

First paragraph (this article has no abstract)

It is much too early to discuss even preliminary results from our experiment with re-review opt-out [1], and will be for some time, although we may report on interesting anomalies if there are enough of them. But in the meantime, Virginia Walbot, in this issue of Journal of Biology[2], has a practical suggestion on the complaint that stimulated us to embark on the experiment: namely, referees who seem to consider it their responsibility to prevent the publication of the papers they review; or at least to ensure that they cannot be published rapidly.