Biological Oceanography – How living organisms affect and are affected by, oceanic chemistry, physics, and geology.Biogeochemistry – Chemical cycles affecting or driven by biological activity (especially carbon, nitrogen, sulfur and phosphorus cycles).Atmospheric Chemistry – Natural and anthropogenic reactions and products including greenhouse gases, acid rain, photochemistry, ozone depletion.Aquatic and Marine Chemistry – Natural and anthropogenic chemistry of fresh, salt, and groundwater environments including eutrophication, deoxygenation, pesticides, endocrine disruptors, ocean acidification.That means all new manuscripts submitted between today 24th October 2017 and 31st January 2018 that fall under the following subjects areas will be free to publish: Over the years, and with the dedicated commitment of our editorial board and academic reviewers, we’ve published nearly 4,000 articles garnering a global reach of over 12 million views.īut we aren’t stopping there! To demonstrate our commitment in this field (and to actively seek submissions from this wider range of subject areas) we are waiving all article processing charges (APCs) in our new Environmental Sciences subject areas for the next three months. Our flagship journal PeerJ launched in 2013 as a speedy, low-cost, high-quality venue for peer-reviewed research across the whole of biology, medicine, and the health sciences. New models and avenues are necessary to ensure science is valued and scientific production reaches society where and when it is needed.” We, scientists, also have a responsibility in the ways our work is shared and used. Immediate and open access to what the scientific community produces is essential to foster co-production of knowledge relevant to decision making. Professor Maria Sanz, PeerJ Advisory Board member and Scientific Director of the Basque Centre of Climate Change writes, “The need to respond to complex emerging questions on how to address urgent environmental issues, such as climate change, requires multi and transdisciplinary approaches. To handle the breadth of new subject areas we have added over 300 renowned environmental science experts to our editorial board including Blanca Jimenez-Cisneros, Edward Maibach, David Stern, and Mark Osborn. This is a strongly interdisciplinary field, in which open access to high-quality science for a global audience is crucial, now and in the coming decades. Because of our background in the biological and health sciences, we believe we can fill a unique role by focusing on those environmental sciences that have some relationship to anthropogenic effects, and which intersect with biology and human health. With our roots firmly planted in research community-driven publishing, we quickly got to work to meet this evident research need.Įffective today, our expanded Environmental Sciences section is now up and running and researchers can submit manuscripts from a much wider range of subject areas. We received a strong, positive response when we added these areas and since then have been receiving requests to expand the journal to more comprehensively cover Environmental Sciences. In the summer, we announced that we are now accepting submissions in the areas related to environmental science and climate change given its vital importance and the wide overlap with our existing scope. We are announcing today the expansion of our journal PeerJ to explicitly include the Environmental Sciences. We are thrilled to be able to share some exciting developments aimed at getting more authors engaged in sharing their research openly and giving more readers access to vital research necessary for addressing pressing global challenges. International Open Access Week is a great time for the scientific community to reflect on how open access to scientific research is making a difference and what we, at PeerJ, can do to ensure momentum rapidly continues for wider access around the world.
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