13 December 2007
For Immediate Release
Contact: Pierrette Tremblay Pierrette_Tremblay@ete.inrs.ca On December 6, Elements became the 35th online geoscience journal on the GeoScienceWorld (GSW) platform, http://www.geoscienceworld.org. Elements is now available and fully searchable through GSW's online portal of geoscience journals at http://elements.geoscienceworld.org. The full text of the journal is freely available to all until February 6, 2008; after that date, full text will be available only to GSW subscribers. Elements was launched in 2005 and has quickly garnered recognition in the international community. It is published bimonthly by a consortium of 13 mineralogical and geochemical societies. It has won the AESE award for best publication in the Earth sciences in 2005 and its founder, Rod Ewing, was presented with the AESE award for Outstanding Editorial Contributions. The magazine is now fully indexed in the ISI databases and received its first impact factor in 2006 (1.562). Every issue of Elements explores a theme of broad and current interest in the mineral and geochemical sciences, through four to six invited peer-reviewed papers coordinated by a guest editor. These papers make up half the content of the magazine. Elements also presents regular features like a calendar of events, short-course announcements, awards, conference reports, as well as news of the Societies. In 2008, the following themes will be covered: - Supervolcanoes and their Explosive Super-Eruptions
- Phosphates and Global Sustainability
- Deep Earth: Recent Developments in Mineral Physics
- Geological Sequestration of Carbon Dioxide
- Platinum-Group Elements
- Nanogeoscience
GeoScienceWorld is an online resource for research and communications in the geosciences, built on a core aggregation of high-impact, peer-reviewed journals that are indexed, linked, and interoperable with the GeoRef bibliographic database. The addition of Elements is an important landmark in GSW's mission to be the most comprehensive, widely accessible, easy to use, integrated, and cost-effective online resource for journals in the geological and earth sciences. Headquartered in Alexandria, Va., GeoScienceWorld was incorporated in 2004 as a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization with the sole purpose of making geoscience research and information easily available to the scientific community and the public in an online digital format that facilitates education and future research. GeoScienceWorld, 4220 King St., Alexandria, VA 22302, phone 703/671-4791, fax 703/379-7563.
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