Scientific publisher Nature Publishing Group (NPG) and the British Dental Association (BDA) have announced the launch of BDJ Open, a new open access journal which will publish dental and oral health research from all disciplines.
BDJ Open will publish scientifically sound, open research to complement the British Dental Journal, the UK's leading dental journal and the official journal of the BDA. NPG also publishes BDJ Team, BDJ Student, Evidence-Based Dentistry, and BDJ In Practice on behalf of the BDA.
The online-only journal will be published via open access, which means that all research will be freely available upon publication, and can be accessed by anyone, from research scientists to practising dentists and patients. The Editor-in-Chief is Stephen Hancocks OBE, current Editor-in-Chief of the British Dental Journal.
The journal will publish material on dental materials science, dental public health, restorative dentistry, management of dental disease, periodontology, endodontology, oral surgery, paediatric dentistry, prosthodontics, orthodontics, special care dentistry, clinically relevant oral biology and translational research and more.
The journal is currently online at http://www.nature.com/bdjteam/ and open for submissions now.
