Open access publisher BioMed Central has announced that Zoological Letters, the official academic journal of The Zoological Society of Japan (ZSJ), will be launched from BioMed Central's open access publishing platform.
Zoological Letters considers original contributions relevant to zoology and related fields in the form of original articles, review articles, short letters and case reports. The journal will be led by Editor in Chief Shigeru Kuratani, Group Director of the Center for Developmental Biology at RIKEN Kobe, and an advisory editorial board.
Another official journal, Zoological Science, was first published in 1897 as a Japanese-based journal, and has become an English-based international monthly journal since 1984.
The publication costs for Zoological Letters are covered by the society, so authors do not need to pay an article-processing charge.
