EJNMMI Research: a new journal in nuclear medicine

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With the beginning of 2011 Springer has launched, after consultation with Ignasi Carrió, Editor-in-Chief of the European Journal of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging (EJNMMI), a companion journal, EJNMMI Research. With the increasing number of manuscripts that cannot be published by the EJNMMI because of reasons other than insufficient quality -- space, redundancy, target audience etc. -- it became obvious that there was a need for another forum where high-quality nuclear medicine research features could be communicated [1]. It was also clear that Open Access (OA) was the key to a rapid and wide dissemination of scientific results. A great number of funding organisations all over the world already require or at least encourage grant recipients to make their results available according to the OA paradigm. The costs of publication are lower than in traditional journals; and they are supported by the authors or their institutions rather than by the readers via subscription. The number of institutions across Europe and elsewhere that are members or supporting members of OA publishers, and consequently support the publication costs, is constantly growing. …