Publisher John Wiley and Sons Inc. and the Royal Geographical Society (with IBG) have announced the launch of the Society's first fully open access journal - Geo: Geography and Environment. Geo positions the RGS-IBG and Wiley as world leaders in the publication of geographical research. Geo will begin accepting submissions from July 24.
Geo is one of the first journals of its kind, dedicated to publishing high-quality, peer-reviewed articles from across the spectrum of geographical and environmental enquiry. The journal will focus on work of international significance, and welcomes submissions that bring new understandings to geographical research agendas, advance the discipline, foster methodological development and address contemporary geographical issues.
Professor Gail Davies, of the University of Exeter, and Professor Anson Mackay, of University College London, are co-Editors of the new journal.
All articles published in Geo will be paid for by authors, institutions or their funders. Geo complements the Society's prestigious portfolio of existing journals – Area, The Geographical Journal and Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers – which are funded primarily through reader subscriptions, but also give authors the option of paying for their articles to be open access immediately.
The journal will publish articles under a choice of Creative Commons Licences, enabling authors to be fully compliant with open access requirements of funding organisations where they apply. All articles will be published open access on Wiley Online Library, with a publication fee payable on acceptance of the article.
