Launch of new open-access journal across all disciplines in climate change research

[Eelco Rohling]

Dear all

I am happy to announce that Oxford University Press has launched the new open-access journal Oxford Open Climate Change, which spans all disciplines in climate change research, including potential solutions. I am the founding Editor in Chief of this journal, and although we are still finalising the Associate Editor list and Editorial Board, I look forward to exciting contributions, which can be submitted as of today. 

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The press release is copied below:

Oxford Open Climate Change is a wide-reaching interdisciplinary journal that aims to cover all aspects of climate change. It welcomes submissions on the physical and biogeochemical aspects of climate change, its social impact and response assessments, its economic, health, politics, and governance impacts, and possible natural or technical solutions. In taking this broad approach, the journal aims to remove siloes from the research on climate change and disseminate findings across traditional fields to support the work of global scholars in tackling the climate crisis.

Editor in Chief, Professor Eelco Rohling of Australian National University and Southampton University, explained more about the journal’s publishing policies, ‘First and foremost, Oxford Open Climate Change is underpinned by a commitment to open research – it is a fully open access journal with clear policies on open data to encourage research re-use and reproducibility. We will publish both invited contributions and those submitted speculatively, as well as special issues that consider key challenges from a wide range of disciplines. All content will undergo rigorous peer review.’

Rhodri Jackson, Publishing Director for Open Access at OUP, said, ‘The launch of Oxford Open Climate Change is another significant milestone on our journey towards a more open world for our academic publishing. As the largest university press publisher of open access content, I’m pleased that we have been able to launch such an innovative, interdisciplinary journal as part of the Oxford Open series, covering such an important subject for the future of the world as we know it’.

Oxford Open Climate Change is the third title in the Oxford Open series which launched in May 2020 with Oxford Open Immunology and Oxford Open Materials Science. The series aims to offer quality outlets for cutting edge, fully open access research in a wide range of subject areas, supported by the world’s largest university press. Under editorial leadership from across the globe, the series facilitates greater openness in all aspects of research dissemination.

For more information or to submit a paper, please visit the Oxford Open Climate Change website.

About Oxford University Press

Oxford University Press is the largest university press publisher of open access research. We publish over 70 fully open access journals, more than 70 open access monographs, and offer an open access publishing option on over 400 journals. Since 2004, we have published over 70,000 open access papers across all major subject areas and publish more than 1,000 OA articles per month.  

Oxford University Press has been publishing journals for more than a century and has more than 500 years of publishing expertise. 

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Prof. Eelco J. Rohling
(Ocean & Climate Change)
- 2012 Australian Laureate Fellow
- editor, Reviews of Geophysics
Research School of Earth Sciences
The Australian National University
Canberra, ACT 2601
Australia

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