STM publisher Elsevier, Netherlands, has announced the launch of a new journal - Algal Research. The first issue of the journal will be published in May 2012 and further introduced at the 2nd Algal Biomas, Biofuels and Bioproducts conference, which will take place in San Diego, US, on June 10-13, 2012. Dr. José Olivares and Dr. Richard Sayre have been appointed Co-Editors-in-Chief of the journal.
In recent years there has been a resurgence of research in algae for applications to biofuels and co-product development. This resurgence can be seen through the increase in publications in peer-reviewed journals and a plethora of news releases, funding opportunities, private investments, and conferences in this area. Algal Research offers international academic researchers in this field a new publication resource for publishing their work.
Algal Research covers all areas of emerging technologies in algal biology, biomass production, cultivation, harvesting, extraction, bioproducts, conversion to fuels, and econometrics. The journal publishes original scientific research papers, review articles and invited commentaries from scientific community, and is fully peer-reviewed.
All articles published in Algal Research are available online through ScienceDirect; first articles in press are now freely available. The journal is additionally available via Research4Life, the four UN programmes – HINARI, AGORA, OARE and ARDI – that provide developing countries with free or very low cost access to information.
