The American Institute of Physics is pleased to announce the launch of a new, open access journal, AIP Advances. AIP Advances is an exciting online journal covering research activity in the broad area of applied physical science. The journal represents a positive move toward providing authors with a more convenient and efficient process to communicate research results to the global physical science community. With the goal to promote and amplify the voices and ideas of the research community, AIP Advances will put your work at the heart of the conversations taking place in the scientific community today.

A streamlined peer-review process, overseen by a leading panel of experts, ensures a fair and rapid publication experience. This process is then supplemented by a system of post-publication evaluation open to the entire physical science community, which allows an individual article to rise to prominence based on its own merits. In addition, all articles are published under a Creative Commons license enabling research results to be freely communicated and built upon while ensuring that copyright to the original work remains with the author.

The large Editorial Board of AIP Advances is interdisciplinary and multinational, reflecting the composition of the research community the journal will serve. The fully open access format of the journal, partly supported by the payment of an article processing charge by authors of accepted manuscripts, means that all articles will be made freely available worldwide immediately upon publication.

We welcome your submissions via the journal's submission and peer review website at http://aipadvances.peerx-press.org. Please visit the homepage at http://aipadvances.aip.org to learn more.

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