The Royal Society of Chemistry, UK, has announced the launch of a new journal, Biomaterials Science. The new journal seeks to provide the academic and industrial researchers in the field of biomaterials a new option for the publication of their research in 2012. Norio Nakatsuji, Prof. and Director at Kyoto University's WPI-iCeMS, and Prof. Phillip Messersmith from Northwestern University, USA, have been appointed Co-Editors-in-chief of the journal.
The journal is a collaborative venture between RSC Publishing and Kyoto University's WPI Institute for Integrated Cell-Material Sciences (iCeMS) in Japan. The journal is projected to bridge material science, biology, chemistry and physics and will ensure through free access the authors' work has maximum visibility.
Biomaterials Science will be a multidisciplinary journal covering the fundamental science of biomaterials and their biomedical applications. The journal will open for submissions from March 2012, advance articles will be available from August 2012 and the first issue will be published in 2013.
Authors submitting to Biomaterials Science will benefit from rapid peer review and publication with no page charges. Authors have the option of publishing their research as an Accepted Manuscript. Open Access publication is also available as an option through RSC Open Science.
All content will be freely available online for readers via the website from launch until December 2014.
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