Elsevier Announces Interdisciplinary Open Access Journal

Elsevier is inviting the research community to help the publisher build an open-access journal covering all disciplines, scheduled to launch later this year. As part of the new journal, the publisher will also build "an online interface that provides authors with a step-by-step, quick and intuitive submission process," Sara Grimme, Elsevier's publishing and product director, wrote in a blog post. Claudia Lupp, whose resume includes stints with Nature and the open-access journal Nature Communications, will serve as editor-in-chief, the publisher said.