The Journal of Young Investigators: An Undergraduate, Peer-Reviewed Science Journal

About the SciTeam Alliance

At every moment of the day, an undergraduate student prepares an experiment somewhere around the globe. Due to the strict requirements of major research journals, such as Science and Nature, these research projects developed and performed by undergraduates are often left to be published in university journals. However, these journals often fail to distribute undergraduate research to the greater international scientific community. As a consequence, an alliance of undergraduate journals is needed to develop a positive collaboration between journals across the globe for the furtherance of undergraduate research. Drawing off its high publicity and web traffic, JYI is pleased to announce the formation of SciTeam: Worldwide Undergraduate Alliance.

The Journal of Young Investigators (JYI, Inc.) is a non-profit international peer-reviewed online science journal and news source offering a new scientific manuscript editing service for students in developing countries. JYI aims to create high-quality educational experiences for students that encourage active, critical examination of scientific ideas through peer-review, editing and scientific journalism. A group of elite university students with successful publication track-records in submitting to top peer-reviewed science journals including Nature, Science and the New England Journal of Medicine will edit your manuscript and provide constructive feedback specific to your goals. Getting your science published in a peer-reviewed journal is challenging, and even more so coming from emerging regions of scientific excellence. We appreciate these challenges, and hope to encourage and assist you in communicating your science to the world.

SciTeam Alliance Member Journals

JYI, Inc, originally founded in February of 1997, is an exciting, student-led initiative that provides opportunities for students to participate in the scientific review and publication processes. JYI's staff members currently represent over 60 different academic institutions. JYI has been featured in EurekAlert!, Chemical Engineering News, and The Chronicle on Higher Education. Recently, an article highlighting JYI appeared in The New York Times (17 February 1999).

The JYI experience is beneficial to undergraduate students in three main ways. First, JYI helps in developing a potential pipeline of scientific leadership with a broad understanding of science's relationship to society that can advocate persuasively on science's behalf. Second, it promotes effective science writing. Grant proposals require students to communicate their ideas compellingly to a generalist and situate the work in a broader context. Practicing scientists often note that 50% of the scientific process is developing and conducting experiments, and the other 50% entails strong written communication in the form of grant-writing and journal articles. JYI gives students an edge as budding scientists by not only developing string scientific writing, but also encouraging the habit of staying abreast of the latest advances in science outside of the student's area of scientific specialization. Third and perhaps most importantly, we bring together the top science students around the world and allows relationships to be built and mutual mentorship to occur. Together, these two elements stimulate thought and discussion of current scientific issues at the undergraduate level.

The University of Toronto Journal of Undergraduate Life Sciences (JULS) was established in the summer of 2006. Starting out as a small group of students who wanted to showcase various works of research by other students, JULS has quickly gained support from various departments and faculty members here at the University of Toronto. Each issue of JULS seeks to exhibit original research from the various life science disciplines, in the hopes of promoting interdisciplinary thinking. All articles are edited by a two-stage peer-review process. Issues are published annually, and are available in both print and electronic format.

The MIT Harvard Research Journal (MHRJ) is the only publication that showcases peer-reviewed undergraduate and graduate student research from all scientific disciplines at MIT and Harvard. As a biannual publication, MHRJ familiarizes students with the process of manuscript submission and evaluation. Moreover, it provides a comprehensive forum for scientific discourse on the cutting-edge research that impacts our world today. For more question please contact Asad Moten, Editor in Chief of MHRJ, at aimoten at removeme.gmail.com.