New open access journal Heliyon opens for submissions

Earlier this year, we announced that we would be launching a new open access journal, Heliyon, publishing sound science across all disciplines. We’re excited to tell you about the next phase  of this journey, as we launch the journal platform and open for submissions.

Introducing Heliyon.com

Following our announcement, we received some useful feedback from the research community, and since then, we’ve been busy developing the journal’s webpage, heliyon.com opens in new tab/window, which went live today.

Simplicity lies at the heart of Heliyon, and the new website has been designed with this in mind. With streamlined navigation, it will be very easy to find the information you need.

Submission guidelines

You'll also be able to find our submission guidelines on the website, with all the information you need to help you to submit your manuscript. Here, you'll also find advice on how you can enhance your online article with options such as Autoslides, data linking, interactive graphs, and MATLAB files.

Heliyon’s key features

• Fast and simple. Once you submit your paper, our editors will find the right experts to review it and get you a first decision as fast as they can. If it’s accepted, we aim to get your article published online in 72 hours.

• Open and broad. We publish technically sound research across all disciplines. And because Heliyon is open access, readers will have immediate access to your paper.

• Wide reach. Using smart technologies developed by Elsevier, we’re able to make papers easily discoverable and connect them to the relevant research communities and readers.

• Innovative and collaborative. The journal will be developed in close collaboration with the research community and will evolve in response to feedback. Our smart technology will allow us to implement new features and services

More to come …

As of today, the journal is open for submissions, and you can submit an article through the journal website. But this is just the first step. We are currently building an online interface that will provide authors with a step-by-step, quick and intuitive submission process. We hope to have a beta version of this system ready towards the middle of the year. Once the first articles are published, we’ll be using Elsevier’s smart technologies to make papers easily discoverable and to connect them to the relevant research communities and readers. Heliyon will be a platform for experimentation and innovation. We want to explore new features and services that help researchers to advance science. If a new feature or functionality works, we’ll keep it; if not, we’ll change it. Ultimately we want to make publishing a better experience, tailored to researchers’ needs. What’s more, we hope to take the learnings from this journal to enhance our full portfolio of journals. This is just the beginning. We’ll be continuously adapting and evolving in response to feedback from the research community — watch this space.

Tell us what you think

Visit the website www.heliyon.com opens in new tab/window for more information, submission guidelines, and to register for our email alerts.

If you have any ideas about how to improve the publication process, please email us at [email protected] opens in new tab/window.

What’s in a name?

We’ve chosen to name our new journal Heliyon. The name is all about shining light on important research. Helios was the Greek god of the sun. This root word gave us inspiration, as we want this journal to illuminate knowledge across a broad spectrum.

Since the journal has innovation at its core, we also wanted a name that was unique, memorable, and had never been used in publishing before.