Editorial: Evolution: Education and Outreach goes open access!

Editorial It’s a New Year and, with it, a momentous change for Evolution: Education and Outreach as we enter our sixth year of publication. From now on, we will be fully Open Access on our website (http://www.evolution-outreach. com/). In addition, the first five previously published volumes a total of 20 issues, most of them dedicated to particular topics (e.g. ‘Co-evolution,’ ‘Biogeography,’ ‘Evolution and Medicine,’ ‘Museums and Evolution,’ ‘Human Evolution’), organized and written by experts in their fields will be freely available, too, for the very first time on SpringerLink (http://link.springer.com). We’ll keep publishing great articles on both evolution and education including several new essays by evolutionary biologist Dan Brooks and paleontologist William Miller III, and many more excellent papers in the pipeline. This move to Open Access is a dream come true. Everyone with a computer can have free and simple access to every contribution that we publish now, in the future, as well as our past publications. We are, after all, an outreach journal, dedicated to facilitating the teaching and clear understanding of the total range of subject matter subsumed under the modern meaning of ‘evolution.’ This means that everyone with an interest in evolution can now read our journal without being concerned about subscription costs, or needing to be affiliated with large academic institutions who routinely supply access to journals such as our own to their faculty, students and associates. We continue to seek strong general-interest papers by scientists wanting to promote understanding of their research and areas of special interest and expertise, the better to inform everyone of the latest understanding and results in the evolutionary sciences. And, likewise, we continue our earnest efforts to publish the very best in evolutionary education research and theory, the better