NEW OPEN ACCESS JOURNAL BEGINS PUBLICATION
October 30th, 2006
The first articles in IOP’s new open-access journal, Environmental Research Letters (ERL) , were recently published. Professor Daniel M. Kammen, the Editor-in-Chief of ERL said, “As a free to read journal, ERL’s prime purpose is to serve the entire environmental science community. I am delighted by the quality of these first contributions and eagerly anticipate the continued growth of this exciting new journal.”
The first content includes:
• Shifts in plant dominance control carbon-cycle responses to experimental warming and widespread drought by J Harte, S Saleska and T Shih
• Images of the energy future by Arthur Mason
• Risks of the oil transition by A E Farrell and A R Brandt
• Can there be science-based precaution? by Charles Weiss
• The Bodélé depression — a single spot in the Sahara that provides most of the mineral dust to the Amazon forest by I Koren, Y J Kaufman, R Washington, M Todd, Y Rudich, V J Martins and D Rosenfeld
Future additions will appear on the journal’s homepage.
ERL’s coverage will reflect the increasingly interdisciplinary nature of environmental science, recognizing wide-ranging contributions to the development of methods, tools and evaluation strategies relevant to the field.
The editorial direction and development of the journal are guided by a prestigious international board under the supervision of Professor Kammen (University of California, Berkeley). A full list of Advisory and Editorial Board members is located here.
We are pleased that this new journal is available to the community in an open-access format!
Any questions about ERL should be directed to erl@iop.org.
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