New journal open-access scientific journals is now accepting submissions online

New journal open-access scientific journals is now accepting submissions online -

Elementa’s Editors-in-Chief give their thoughts on open access, the journal, and its mission:
http://www.elementascience.org

Elementa is an open-access, nonprofit journal, founded by BioOne and five collaborating academic institutions: Dartmouth, the Georgia Institute of Technology, the University of Colorado Boulder, the University of Michigan, and the University of Washington.

Elementa will shortly publish original research reporting on new knowledge of the Earth’s physical, chemical, and biological systems; interactions between human and natural systems; and steps that can be taken to mitigate and adapt to global change.

Elementa is now accepting submissions through its online peer-review system (http://www.editorialmanager.com/elementa). Benefits of publishing with Elementa include rapid, rigorous peer-review; a detailed manuscript tracking system for authors; and publications of articles through a variety of human- and machine-intelligible formats: XML, HTML, JSON, PDF, EPUB, and Mobipocket, Publication of first articles is planned for this summer.

Visit the site and follow us on Twitter for more details: www.elementascience.org, @elementascience.

If you would like to receive more information about Elementa please contact Clare Dean at cdean@elementascience.org.

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