The Optical Society (OSA) has announced a partnership with the Shanghai Institute of Optics and Fine Mechanics (SIOM) and Chinese Laser Press (CLP) to launch a new peer-reviewed, open-access journal. The journal, titled Photonics Research, is a joint publication of SIOM and OSA and is scheduled to publish its first issue in June 2013.
Photonics Research will primarily publish original research papers along with review articles. Topics will cover a broad range of optics and photonics areas - from basic to applied research. The journal will be led by editor-in-chief Professor Zhiping Zhou of Peking University in China and an international editorial board. It will follow a cascading peer review system - a first for OSA journals - which will benefit authors who may have submitted to another OSA journal but whose paper or topic area are more suited for this new journal.
Many features of the new joint journal will mirror those of OSA’s core titles and the CLP publication Chinese Optics Letters. The journal will be open access online, with a subscription-based print edition available in China. Published in English, it will have a bi-monthly frequency and will be highly selective. Authors will benefit from timely publication with professional composition. Articles will be accessible online via OSA's Optics InfoBase, featuring the new enhanced HTML format plus article usage metrics, and on CLP’s OpticsJournal.net platform.
Paper submissions for Photonics Research will be accepted beginning in late December. The editorial board will invite and select from high-quality papers from a variety of optics and photonics research teams around the world.
