The Optical Society (OSA) has announced that it will begin publishing a new open access journal, OSA Continuum, in September 2018. The new Journal will accept contributions from the broad optics and photonics community and will provide rapid dissemination of research articles meeting OSA's high standards of accuracy, scientific rigour, and presentation standards without judgment of impact or significance. In addition to traditional research, OSA Continuum will consider negative results and reproducibility studies - the first journal in OSA's portfolio to provide a venue for these types of articles.
OSA Continuum will open for submissions in mid-June. Authors may submit directly to the Journal or easily transfer manuscripts from other OSA journals - a task that will be made easier by using OSA Publishing's new universal manuscript template and that will eliminate the need for reformatting. OSA Continuum will also be the first in OSA's journal portfolio to introduce an option for transparent peer review, where authors and reviewers may choose to publish the peer review correspondence (reviewer comments, decision letters and author response) with the final article.
Takashige Omatsu, Professor, Graduate School of Engineering, and Director, Molecular Chirality Research Center at Chiba University, Japan, has been selected as the inaugural editor-in-chief of the Journal. Omatsu's approach for OSA Continuum's editorial board is that it consists of active researchers representing the Journal's broad topical scope and geographic reach. He will be supported by deputy editor, Erik Vartiainen, Associate Professor, School of Engineering Science at Lappeenranta University of Technology, Finland.
Article publication in this Gold Open-Access journal will be supported by Article Processing Charges, though the fee will be waived for all articles published in 2018. After the introductory period, OSA Continuum will offer discounts and waivers to authors from 100 qualifying low- and middle-income countries.
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