The non-profit American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), publisher of the Science family of journals, plans an expansion of its scientific communication efforts with the launch of a new title, Science Advances, as an extended forum for high-quality, peer-reviewed research.
Spanning science, technology, engineering, mathematics, and the social sciences, the new digital publication will leverage Science's uniquely broad scope to help speed scientific progress by promoting the rapid communication of current research. Science Advances will be published online - on an open-access basis, with articles freely available to the public - through the payment, by authors, of an article processing fee.
According to Alan I. Leshner, the association's chief executive officer and executive publisher of Science, as an online-only, open-access journal, Science Advances will help AAAS make more outstanding research available to researchers and others.
The journal will be staffed by a lead editor, who will report to the Science editor-in-chief, as well as a business manager, to be supervised by the Science publisher. In addition, Science Advances will have a managing editor, who will report to the Science executive editor. AAAS will conduct a broadly inclusive search to fill each of these new positions.
In addition to Science, the premier global science weekly, AAAS publishes Science Signaling, the leading journal of cell signaling and regulatory biology, and Science Translational Medicine, integrating medicine, engineering and science to promote human health.
