Open Access is Evolving and ChemistryOpen is Too!

Kate Lawrence* Gone are the days when every mention of open access (OA) came with a long explanation of what it entails. Instead, OA is now widely accepted as a model for scholarly publishing. ChemistryOpen is proud to have been one of the journals there at the start for the chemistry community, being the first society-owned fully OA general chemistry journal, launched in 2011. Since then, ChemistryOpen has gone from strength to strength, and was rewarded with an impressive 2015 impact factor of 3.585. Following this, we have recently seen an increase in both the quantity and quality of submissions, enabling us to achieve our aim of publishing high-quality chemistry to the widest possible audience.