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Physiological Reports, The Society’s new open access journal, jointly owned with the American Physiological Society, held a well-attended launch event at the Experimental Biology conference in Boston on 21 April. Editors and staff handed out free leaflets, pens, drinks and food as the Deputy Editor-in-Chief, Tom Kleyman, and the Chief Executives of the two societies, Philip Wright and Marty Frank (APS), explained their vision for the new journal and answered questions.

Tom Kleyman said: “It was great to see so many people come and join us. There was a lot of enthusiasm and I had several people tell me that they already had a paper submitted to the journal or had just decided to submit. Everybody congratulated us on getting the two societies together on this new venture.”

Sue Wray, Editor-in-Chief, was unable to attend due to a prior engagement, but said: “I can’t wait to play host at the UK launch event at the IUPS meeting in Birmingham!”

The UK launch will take place on Monday 22 July, 5-6.30pm, at the IUPS Congress, at stand #75.

The two Directors of Publications, Cornelia Schnelle and Rita Scheman (APS), also used the launch event to catch up with the Wiley editorial team, Christina Dzikowski, Kristen Greaney and Kristin McNealy, on the journal’s progress. Physiological Reports had then received 34 submissions since its launch on 28 March and 13 more manuscripts were submitted in the following two days alone. The first article has since been published and two more are in the pipeline at the time of writing.

Those of you looking to publish in Physiological Reports are encouraged to submit as soon as possible, as only the first 100 accepted articles will be published free of charge.