The International Union For Pure And Applied Biophysics And Springer Will Collaborate On A New Journal Biophysical Reviews

The International Union for Pure and Applied Biophysics (IUPAB) and Springer will launch the journal Biophysical Reviews in spring 2009. Biophysical Reviews is the new official journal of the IUPAB, the leading international biophysics organization consisting of 52 national societies with approximately 15,000 members. The entire IUPAB Council will form the editorial board of the new journal in order to demonstrate the close affiliation between the Springer journal and the IUPAB.



Biophysical Reviews will publish short and critical reviews from key scientists active in the field. The quarterly journal will cover the entire field of biophysics, generally defined as the science of describing biological phenomena and resolving their underlying principles using the concepts and techniques of physics. This includes, but is not limited to, such areas as bioinformatics, biophysical methods and instrumentation, medical biophysics, biosystems and cell biophysics. The editor-in-chief, Professor Jean Garnier of the Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique (INRA) - UnitГ© MathГ©matique Informatique et GГ©nome (France) will work closely with the expert international editorial board.



Dr. Sabine Schwarz, Senior Editor for Life Sciences at Springer, said, "We are excited about the IUPAB's decision to cooperate with Springer. The new journal will provide top-level reviews in biophysics, which will of course all be peer-reviewed. This aspect, combined with the high-caliber editorial board and the IUPAB's previous publishing experience, provides the perfect preconditions for a successful journal."



Professor Kuniaki Nagayama, President of the International Union for Pure and Applied Biophysics, said, "The IUPAB requires a useful and broadly informative official journal, and our old journal did not serve our purposes well. Now, in cooperation with Springer, we are starting the new official journal, Biophysical Reviews. I am pleased to have the opportunity to be part of the development of this new journal, together with the IUPAB, biophysicists affiliated with the IUPAB and all others interested in biophysics."



Springer will publish Biophysical Reviews in both print and electronic formats. It will be available via springerlink, Springer's online information platform, and will include fast, electronic publication in Online First™, as well as Cross Reference Linking and Table of Content Alerts. All potential authors have the option, via the Springer Open Choice™ program, of publishing their articles using the open access publishing model.



The International Union for Pure and Applied Biophysics is a member of the International Council for Science family. Its function is to support research and teaching in biophysics.



Springer is the second-largest publisher of journals in the science, technology, and medicine (STM) sector and the largest publisher of STM books. It publishes on behalf of more than 300 academic associations and professional societies. Springer is part of Springer Science+Business Media, one of the world's leading suppliers of scientific and specialist literature. The group publishes over 1,700 journals and more than 5,500 new books a year, as well as the largest STM eBook Collection worldwide. Springer has operations in over 20 countries in Europe, the USA, and Asia, and some 5,000 employees.







Biophysical Reviews

ISSN: 1867-2450 (print version)

ISSN: 1867-2469 (electronic version)



Source: Renate Bayaz


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