We are pleased to announce that our first journal, PMC Physics A, will be open for submissions from April 14th. The journal will cover particle & nuclear physics, gravity, cosmology & astroparticle physics. There is also a special section devoted to instrumentation and data analysis.

We are very pleased to have Professor Ken Peach as Editor-in-Chief. Professor Peach holds roles at Oxford University and Royal Holloway University, London. He is also chair of CERN’s Scientific Policy Committee.

As with all PMC journals, authors will benefit from:

• Use of PACS and MCS codes to classify articles
• 2-way integration with arXiv, allowing submission from the arXiv and submission to the journal and arXiv simultaneously
• TeX templates to format your article
• Full copyright remains with the author
• Article is deposited in several online repositories around the world

Publication in PMC Physics A will be free for submissions received by 30 June 2007. After this date a standard article processing charge will apply.

Submit your articles at www.physmathcentral.com from April 14th.

Members of the PhysMath Central team will be at the APS meeting in Jacksonville from 14-16th April. Come along to our stand #10 and apart from learning all about our open access journals, you can also play our exciting particle game!

Reach into a bag, pull out a particle, wear it on your shirt and go and interact with the other particles. When you find the other person with your matching particle, come back to the stand to win a prize.

We will also be handing out pens & T-shirts for very lucky people!

We are in the process of announcing an advisory board to guide our decision making process on the big questions and make sure we are always ‘doing the right thing’ for researchers, librarians and other information professionals. So far we are very happy to have the following people on board:

• Anna Gold, Engineering & Science Librarian at MIT
• Herbert van de Sompel of Los Alamos National Laboratory and the Open Archives Initiative
• Simeon Warner of Cornell University and arXiv.org

More news on this in the next update.

We were interviewed earlier this year by First Author, who were keen to discover our plans for PhysMath Central. This seems an appropriate time to invite you to read the entire interview here.

Also we have an official PMC blog where important, and not-so-important, news breaks on an almost daily basis. Add it to your RSS reader now!