Publisher John Wiley & Sons, Inc., US, and the American Geophysical Union (AGU) have announced the creation of a new all open access peer-reviewed journal, Earth and Space Science.
Marking AGU's second new open access journal in the last 12 months, Earth and Space Science claims to be the only journal that reflects the expansive range of science represented by AGU's 62,000 members, including all of the Earth, planetary, and space sciences, and related fields in environmental science, geoengineering, space engineering, and biogeochemistry.
Earth and Space Science will begin accepting submissions as soon as the editorial team is in place. Submissions will present and interpret key data sets and observations that contribute to a broader scientific understanding of the Earth and its environment, as well as our solar system and beyond. Earth and Space Science will also welcome research that adds dimension to such observations, addressing topics such as methodology, theory, mapping, and modeling. In addition to direct submissions, the journal will welcome, via referral from other journals, articles that meet AGU's high standards of excellence, but that do not fit the unique criteria of those journals.
Earth and Space Science joins a prestigious portfolio of research publications that are governed by AGU's rigorous peer-review process. This includes the highly ranked Geophysical Research Letters and Journal of Geophysical Research – Atmospheres, and Earth's Future - an innovative open access publication that features trans-disciplinary research, editorials, and essays emphasizing the Earth as an interactive, evolving system under the influence of the human enterprise - which was successfully launched in late 2013.
The journal will publish articles under the Creative Commons Attribution License enabling authors to be fully compliant with open access requirements of funding organisations where applicable. The publication fee will be competitive with those of other broad open access journals.
A search is now underway for the journal's inaugural Editor-in-Chief, who will lead a team of pre-eminent academic editors who are closely connected to their communities. Additional information on Earth and Space Science is available at earthspacescience.agu.org.
