Scientific publisher Nature Publishing Group (NPG), UK, has announced the launch of a new journal - Nature Communications. The journal will publish high-quality peer-reviewed research across the biological, chemical and physical sciences. It will be the first online-only Nature-branded journal. The journal will begin accepting submissions in October 2009, with the first issue published online in April 2010. Dr.Lesley Anson has been appointed Chief Editor.
Nature Communications will publish research papers in all areas of the biological, chemical and physical sciences, encouraging papers that provide a multidisciplinary approach. According to the publisher, the research will be of the highest quality, without necessarily having the scientific reach of papers published in Nature and the Nature research journals, and as such will represent advances of significant interest to specialists within each field. A team of independent editors, supported by an external editorial advisory panel, will make rapid and fair publication decisions based on peer review, with all the rigour expected of a Nature-branded journal.
To ensure Nature Communications responds to changes in journal publishing, authors will be able to publish their work either via the traditional subscription route, or as open access through payment of an article processing charge (APC). Authors who choose the open-access option will be able to license their work under a Creative Commons license, including the option to allow derivative works. Authors who do not choose the open-access option will still enjoy all of the benefits of NPG's self-archiving policy and manuscript deposition service.
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