John Wiley & Sons : Wiley partners with the British Journal of Surgery society to launch new open access journal

"Wiley has partnered with the British Journal of Surgery society to launch an exciting new open access title, BJS Open. Like its sister title, British Journal of Surgery (BJS), BJS Open will publish high-quality work on all aspects of general surgery and related topics.

If authors submit their paper to BJS, they may be given the opportunity to have their manuscript transferred to BJS Open. The BJS society is committed to providing increasing choice for authors who wish to publish their research in a top-quality surgical journal. Unfortunately, BJS is unable to publish the ever mounting number of acceptable and valuable manuscripts it receives, so authors whose papers are unable to be published in a BJS issue due to lack of space will now have the opportunity to have their article transferred to BJS Open, helping increase the speed to publication and reducing the waste in peer review.

BJS Open will retain the same high standards and tradition of excellence that BJS offers; only high-quality papers will be given the opportunity to transfer to this innovative new journal."