The American
Geophysical Union (AGU) and John
Wiley & Sons, Inc., today announced the creation of a new all
open access peer-reviewed journal, Earth and Space Science.
Marking AGU’s second new open access journal in the last 12 months, Earth
and Space Science is the only journal that reflects the
expansive range of science represented by AGU’s 62,000 members,
including all of the Earth, planetary, and space sciences, and related
fields in environmental science, geoengineering, space engineering, and
biogeochemistry.
Earth and Space Science will begin accepting submissions as soon
as the editorial team is in place. Submissions will present and
interpret key data sets and observations that contribute to a broader
scientific understanding of the Earth and its environment, as well as
our solar system and beyond. Earth and Space Science will
also welcome research that adds dimension to such observations,
addressing topics such as methodology, theory, mapping, and modeling. In
addition to direct submissions, Earth and Space Science will
welcome, via referral from other journals, articles that meet AGU’s high
standards of excellence, but that do not fit the unique criteria of
those journals.
“As the world’s leader in Earth and space science publishing, AGU
supports and shapes the advancement of our science and our scientists’
ability to make a difference in the world around them,” said AGU
President Carol Finn. “We know that bringing high-quality studies and
observations to the peer reviewed literature can play an important role
in informing basic and applied research and shaping societal decisions. Earth
and Space Science was created to fill that need, and we are
pleased to be able to partner with a global leader like Wiley to provide
this new platform.”
"Wiley is proud to be partnering with AGU to launch this groundbreaking
new open access journal covering a broad scope including
fast-growing disciplines that are currently underrepresented by existing
publication outlets," said Colette Bean, Vice President and Publishing
Director, Global Research, Wiley. "We are strongly committed to working
with the AGU to expand its open access presence in the Earth and space
sciences and to providing the research community with a new high quality
venue to advance scholarly communication."
Earth and Space Science joins a prestigious portfolio of research
publications that are governed by AGU’s rigorous peer-review process.
This includes the highly ranked Geophysical Research Letters and Journal
of Geophysical Research – Atmospheres, and Earth’s
Future—an innovative open access publication that features
trans-disciplinary research, editorials, and essays emphasizing the
Earth as an interactive, evolving system under the influence of the
human enterprise—which was successfully launched in late 2013.
The journal will publish articles under the Creative Commons Attribution
License enabling authors to be fully compliant with open access
requirements of funding organizations where applicable. The publication
fee will be competitive with those of other broad open access journals.
A search is now underway for Earth and Space Science’s inaugural
Editor-in-Chief, who will lead a team of pre-eminent academic
editors who are closely connected to their communities. Additional
information on Earth and Space Science is available at earthspacescience.agu.org.
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