STM publisher Springer, Germany, has announced that it will begin publishing a new peer-reviewed journal, Neuroethics, beginning March 2008. The global publisher will offer free online access to the full text of all articles during 2008 and 2009. Neil Levy of the Centre for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics, Melbourne, and the University of Oxford, UK, will serve as Editor-in-chief.
Appearing three times a year, the journal seeks to provide a medium for interdisciplinary studies in neuroethics and related issues in the sciences of the mind. It will publish articles with a historical focus on earlier philosophical discussions of neuroethics, as well as articles with a contemporary focus. Reflecting the diversity of the neuroscientific field, the journal will provide a multidisciplinary forum for scholars from a wide range of areas. These include bioethics, social and cognitive psychology, psychiatry, neurology and neurosurgery, the cognitive sciences, philosophy and law. In addition, it will publish research articles, discussion pieces, short communications, reviews of significant literature, information about current scholarly activities in the field and an opinions section for readers' commentaries.
Neuroethics will be available in print and on Springer's online platform, Springerlink. All articles will be published online via Online First before they appear in print, thereby ensuring rapid dissemination of its papers to members of the ethical, medical, legal and social science communities. The journal will include Cross Reference Linking and ToC Alerts, a feature by which subscribers receive the table of contents via email weeks in advance of the new issue.
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