Happy New Year from JAAS!
Welcome to issue 1, 2014 of JAAS, and we wish you a very Happy New Year from the JAAS team!A new look for a New Year
As you have probably noticed, JAAS has a new look this year. With a wonderful new style and logo, JAAS has changed as part of the new visual identity for the Royal Society of Chemistry. We are the oldest chemical society publisher in the world, publishing our first paper in 1841. Since then, the world has changed significantly but chemistry and the chemical sciences are as fundamental as ever. Looking at how we are seen in the chemistry community gave us a chance to refresh our brand and identity.As an organisation we have ambitious goals to be the leading voice and trusted partner for science and humanity, and in order to do this we need to build a greater awareness of the Royal Society of Chemistry. We undertook large scale research to help us understand how we could develop our brand, communicating with 7000+ individuals from our community. You may have taken part in this research: through our online survey, one of the focus groups or a telephone interview? This research helped us to clearly define how we can build on our strengths, such as our international readership, fast publication times and high-quality editorial service. Moving forward in 2014, all articles will be printed with free full colour with our refreshed layout. We are very proud of our heritage and even more excited about our future. We hope you enjoy the new look!
The home for elemental and isotopic analysis in all areas of application
For a number of years, JAAS has aimed to be the central journal for fundamentals in elemental analysis and isotope ratio determinations within all fields of application, where the most recent progress, developments and achievements in plasma-based analytical techniques, and micro-beam techniques can also be found. As the 2012 Journal Citation Report® has shown, JAAS also continues to be the most cited journal which is dedicated to the publication of atomic spectrometry and elemental research. As the interdisciplinary nature of research continues to develop, this is accompanied by an increasing need for the development of methods and analytical techniques in a wide range of subject areas. We therefore welcome submissions to JAAS from the areas of method development in geochemistry, cosmochemistry, biology, medicine, materials science and nanotechnology.We hope that themed issues that we have published in 2013, and those which we have planned for 2014, will continue to provide a showcase for emerging developments and applications, as the community works to push the field forward in these areas.
Look out for our next Young Analytical Scientists themed issue, which will be published online very shortly! This issue will highlight some the emerging researchers in the field.
New faces join the team
We are delighted to welcome new Editorial Board members Wei Hang from Xiamen University, China, Steven Ray from Indiana University, USA, and Carsten Engelhard from the University of Siegen, Germany. We look forward to working with them in the future.
We would like to warmly thank both Norbert Jakubowski and John Olesik who will be stepping down from the Editorial Board at the end of 2013. They have both been members of the Editorial Board for many years, and their support, ideas and enthusiasm for JAAS have been greatly appreciated throughout this time. We are delighted that they will both continue to be involved with JAAS as members of the Advisory Board.
In addition to this, the Royal Society of Chemistry is happy to announce the appointment of Hiromitsu Urakami as the RSC representative in Japan. He is looking forward to working with JAAS authors, readers and referees on non-editorial matters.
We thank all our Editorial and Advisory Board members for their very much appreciated hard work and dedication to the journal this past year, and look forward to working with them in 2014.
Members of the Editorial team will be out and about at a range of conferences throughout the upcoming year, including the 2014 Winter Conference on Plasma Spectrochemistry, Pittcon, the European Workshop on Laser Ablation 2014, TraceSpec/BNASS, JASIS 2014, the 2014 Synchrotron Radiation in Art and Archaeology conference and SciX 2014 among others. Please do get in touch with us if you will also be attending, we would be delighted to discuss the journal and any future developments with you. We are also very pleased to announce that a Workshop on ‘How to get your work published’ will be held on the Monday evening at the 2014 Winter Conference on Plasma Spectrochemistry (6th January 2014). This will be given by JAAS Editor May Copsey, Chair of the Editorial Board Frank Vanhaecke, Editorial Board member Martín Resano and Advisory Board member (and ex-Chair) Detlef Günther. It will cover many aspects of the publication process including advice on how to write a paper, publishing ethics, what makes a good referee report and how to respond to referee comments, and also some tips on how to promote your article once published. So for advice and tips from those in the community who know how, please do come along! It is completely free to attend, and you can sign up when you register for the conference.
Open Access in JAAS
The Royal Society of Chemistry is also supporting Open Access with authors able to choose between Gold and Green Open Access routes to publish their article in JAAS. To support the funder-led evolution towards Gold open access, our Gold for Gold initiative rewards all institutions that subscribe to the Royal Society of Chemistry Gold journal package, with voucher codes to make papers available via open access, free of charge.1 We are also delighted to announce that we are developing a new subject-based repository that will make it easier for researchers to find and share relevant journal articles and data from a single point of access. The Chemical Sciences Repository will offer free-to-access chemistry publications and integrated data in a single place.2 The article repository is a central point through which users can access the Royal Society of Chemistry's open access articles, or articles that must be made open access after an embargo period, such as those funded by RCUK, the Wellcome Trust or NIH.Finally, we would like to take this opportunity to thank all our authors, referees and readers for your continued support and to wish you a very happy and prosperous New Year!
References
- http://rsc.li/goldforgold .
- http://rsc.li/repository .
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