Geochemical Transactions is now an Open Access Journal

Geochemical Transactions is an online-only journal dealing with geochemistry and environmental chemistry.

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Geochemical Transactions http://www.geochemicaltransactions.com/ has had a troubled history. Four lackluster years hosted by the Royal
Society of Chemistry http://www.rsc.org/Publishing/Journals/GT/Index.asp led to a transfer to the American Institute of Physics . AIP opted out due to a continuing dearth of manuscript submissions over the last two years.

With volume 7, the editorial board is trying a new tact. The journal is moving to BioMed Central and adopting an author pays [UK pounds 800, Euros 1185, US$1410], Open Access publishing model. Officially the move is effective on 1 January 2006. Currently, the new website has an announcement of the purchase of all of the backfiles (funded by the ACS Geochemistry division) and an editorial on the new vision for the journal.

Martin A A Schoonen, Ken B Anderson and Scott A Wood. Moving Geochemical Transactions forward as an open access journal. Geochemical Transactions 2006, 7:1 http://www.geochemicaltransactions.com/content/7/1/1.
doi:10.1186/1467-4866-7-1 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1467-4866-7-1.

Geochemical Transactions, the first online-only journal in geochemistry and environmental chemistry, is now the first major open access journal in this subject area. All issues of Geochemical Transactions, including the back content, will be fully and permanently available online to all, without a subscription charge. Copyright of all future articles will be retained by the authors. Geochemical Transactions remains the official journal of the Division of Geochemistry of the American Chemical Society. The generous support of the Division has made it possible to make the back content available without a subscription charge.

As the impact factor demonstrates (1.941), the content has been strong, even if the flow of articles has be en meager.