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Open Science for Public Good An Overview of Elementa: Science of the Anthropocene

Six Inaugural Knowledge Domains Atmospheric Science Detlev Helmig University of Colorado Boulder Earth & Environmental Science Joel D. Blum University of Michigan Ecology Donald R. Zak University of Michigan Ocean Science Jody W. Deming University of Washington Sustainable Engineering Michael E. Chang Georgia Institute of Technology Sustainability Transitions Anne Kapuscinski Dartmouth OVERVIEW

A Unique Collaboration Founded by Supported by five US institutions: -Dartmouth – Advises on the infrastructure; hosting, developing, and maintenance of the publishing platform; and manages the programming and production staff needed to accomplish the editorial workflow and production -Georgia Institute of Technology -University of Colorado Boulder -University of Michigan -University of Washington OVERVIEW

Nonprofit Elementa is a nonprofit initiative founded and supported by nonprofit collaborators Elementa’s nonprofit status allows our collaboration to remain focused on the publication of timely, high quality research to advance the intellectual agenda of science Article processing charges are used directly for the running of the journal, and investment in the journal’s future OVERVIEW

Open Access Published on an open-access, public-good basis—available freely and immediately to the world All articles are published under a Creative Commons Attribution License (CC-BY 3.0 Unported) Our authors retain copyright to their work and allow others to copy, distribute, transmit, and adapt their work, provided proper attribution is given Elementa encourages Open Data, and facilitates data deposit through our partnership with Dryad OVERVIEW

Aims & Scope Supporting the Intellectual Agenda of Science

Aims & Scope A new open-access scientific journal, Elementa: Science of the Anthropocene will publish original research reporting on new knowledge of the Earth’s physical, chemical, and biological systems; interactions between human and natural systems; and steps that can be taken to mitigate and adapt to global change. Elementa will report on fundamental advancements in research organized initially into six knowledge domains, embracing the concept that basic knowledge can foster sustainable solutions for society. Elementa is published on an open-access, public-good basis—available freely and immediately to the world. AIMS & SCOPE

Article Types Research articles, presenting the results of primary scientific research and typically following the format of a traditional research paper; Reviews, presenting conceptual advances, syntheses, and integration of a field or topic; Policy bridge, articles focused on bridging scientific knowledge with policy issues, policy options, or policy analysis; Practice Bridge, articles focused on bridging scientific knowledge with analysis of, challenges with, or opportunities for specific practices; Commentary, explanatory essays, treatises, and opinion papers invited by the Editors-in-Chief; Comment & Reply, items of correspondence relating to Elementa articles and promoting discussion of relevant research, accompanied by author responses; and Book Reviews, critical reviews of books relevant to Elementa, invited by the Editors-in-Chief. AIMS & SCOPE

Atmospheric Science The Atmospheric Science Domain is dedicated to research on the impacts of human activities and the natural state of the Earth’s atmosphere, welcoming articles that explore chemical and physical atmospheric properties encompassing natural processes, perturbations, and assessment of future conditions. OVERVIEW

Earth & Environmental Science The Earth and Environmental Sciences Domain encompasses research on processes impacted by humans that occur on the land surface, in groundwater, and in rivers, lakes and coastal areas. This includes, but is not limited to, the traditional sub-disciplines of surficial geology, geomorphology, physical geography, hydrology, glaciology, geochemistry, biogeochemistry, geomicrobiology, limnology, soil science, remote sensing, climate science, and contaminant fate and transport. OVERVIEW

Ecology The Ecology Domain welcomes research centered on the ways in which humans are intentionally and unintentionally altering the conditions for life on Earth and the resulting ecological implications. These anthropogenic effects manifest at molecular levels and can cascade into physiological, population, community, ecosystem, landscape and global responses. Elementa will report new breakthroughs across these levels of ecological organization as well as for all domains of life. OVERVIEW

Ocean Science The Ocean Science Domain welcomes articles that address any aspect of ocean science, including fundamental, discovery-based and innovative applied research; with a recognition of the impact of human activity on the ocean, the essential dependency of our well being on its functions and the urgent need to bring new knowledge to immediate and wide attention. OVERVIEW

Sustainable Engineering The Sustainable Engineering Domain welcomes novel research papers that address all aspects of engineering including the designing, building, and operating of structures, machines, devices, systems, materials and processes. This includes research in the energy, manufacturing, transportation, buildings, water, and materials domains. Manuscripts are specifically sought from investigators conducting trans-disciplinary research on coupled human, built, and natural systems. OVERVIEW

Sustainability Transitions The Sustainability Transitions Domain welcomes articles that develop ideas, evidence, innovation, and inspiration that have deep or broad implications for guiding and promoting unprecedented transitions of human societies and the planet. Accordingly, there are no disciplinary constraints on articles. OVERVIEW

Publishing with Elementa What you can expect

Why publish with Elementa? Elementa is focused on the publication of timely, high quality research, to advance the intellectual agenda of science. PUBLISHING WITH ELEMENTA Rigorous peer-review Editors-in-Chief leaders in their fields Timely publication Open access model means wide dissemination of your work Interdisciplinary nature provides new opportunities for cross-collaboration Dedicated author services including detailed manuscript tracking Active promotion of your article Articles will be available in machine- as well as human-intelligible formats: HTML, PDF, EPUB, Mobipocket, XML, and JSON

Submitting your manuscript Detailed editorial policies and guidelines can be found on the website: elementascience.org Submissions are accepted through the online submission system Editorial Manager Each domain’s Editor-in-Chief is supported by a team of Associate Editors and peer-reviewers Our goal is to make initial decisions on the submissions within 30 calendar days The publication fee is $1,450 for all article types except Comment and Reply, which is $650. Special Feature submissions consisting of 5 or more papers will automatically receive a 15% discount PUBLISHING WITH ELEMENTA

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