Society for Neuroscience to Launch New Open Access, Online Journal for Emerging Brain ResearchSociety for Neuroscience

"The Society for Neuroscience (SfN) has announced its intent to launch a new, open access (OA), online-only journal to serve the field of neuroscience. The journal, expected to launch as early as fall 2014, will provide a fully open access, rapid publication option for neuroscientists, adding another high-quality publishing venue available through the field’s leading nonprofit scientific society. The new OA journal, which has not yet been named, will publish articles that are scientifically excellent, technically sound, and move the field of neuroscience forward. It will have streamlined peer review and production processes distinct from The Journal of Neuroscience (JN), the Society’s flagship scientific publication. Like JN, the new journal will cover a broad spectrum of areas in the field ..."