STM publisher Elsevier, Netherlands, has announced a new concept methods journal: MethodsX.
Researchers spend up to 80 percent of their time customizing and tweaking existing methods to make them better fit their specific research setting. By providing a home for these often unpublished records, MethodsX allows researchers to receive public credit and citations for that work without spending time writing a full, traditional research article.
As an online-only, open access journal, MethodsX publishes papers in all disciplines of experimental research, from Life Sciences to Health Sciences to Physical Sciences. A paper published in MethodsX includes an abstract to outline the customisation; an image, graph or other visual to illustrate what's been done; and the methodological protocol(s).
The first articles are currently freely available online on ScienceDirect: www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2215016114000028.
