STM pub­lisher Springer, Ger­many, and the Inter­na­tional Union for Pure and Applied Bio­physics (IUPAB) have announced the spring 2009 launch of the jour­nal Bio­phys­i­cal Reviews. The jour­nal will be the new offi­cial pub­li­ca­tion of the IUPAB. The entire IUPAB Coun­cil will form the edi­to­r­ial board of the new jour­nal in order to demon­strate the close affil­i­a­tion between the Springer jour­nal and the IUPAB. Pro­fes­sor Jean Gar­nier of the Insti­tut National de la Recherche Agronomique (INRA) — Unité Math­é­ma­tique Infor­ma­tique et Génome (France) will serve as the editor-in-chief. He will work closely with the expert inter­na­tional edi­to­r­ial board.

A quar­terly pub­li­ca­tion Bio­phys­i­cal Reviews will pub­lish short and crit­i­cal reviews from key sci­en­tists active in the field. The jour­nal will cover the entire field of bio­physics, gen­er­ally defined as the sci­ence of describ­ing bio­log­i­cal phe­nom­ena and resolv­ing their under­ly­ing prin­ci­ples using the con­cepts and tech­niques of physics. This includes areas such as bioin­for­mat­ics, bio­phys­i­cal meth­ods and instru­men­ta­tion, med­ical bio­physics, biosys­tems and cell biophysics.

Springer will pub­lish Bio­phys­i­cal Reviews in both print and elec­tronic for­mats. It will be avail­able via Springer’s online infor­ma­tion plat­form, www.springerlink.com. The jour­nal will include fast, elec­tronic pub­li­ca­tion in Online First, as well as Cross Ref­er­ence Link­ing and Table of Con­tent Alerts. All poten­tial authors have the option, via the Springer Open Choice pro­gramme, of pub­lish­ing their arti­cles using the open access pub­lish­ing model.