Carcinogenesis vol.27 no.2 © Oxford University Press 2006; all rights reserved.
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EDITORIAL
2005 has been another successful year for Carcinogenesis.
Our reputation for rapid review and publication continues—the average paper receives a decision within 26 days, and accepted manuscripts are published online through the journal's Advance Access facility within 2 weeks of acceptance. The number of submissions has increased—at the time of writing we expect to receive over 970 original manuscripts in 2005—and the Editors have an acceptance rate of 
25%. I would like to thank my colleagues, Roger Reddel, Chung S.Yang and Manuel Serrano, for their continued hard work and support as Editors of the journal. I would also like to welcome Alan R.Clarke as a new Editor of Carcinogenesis in 2006. Alan will replace Roger Reddel, a stellar Editor, whose efforts have markedly improved the journal. At the same time, Manuel will change roles to become Editor of the Cancer Biology section and Alan will assume responsibility for the Carcinogenesis section.
Many thanks are also due to the large number of referees, including members of the Editorial Board, who have helped us to attain such rapid review times and high quality. We would like to welcome nine new Editorial Board members who will be joining the Board for 3 year terms: Drs Manuela Baccarini, Manel Esteller, William Hahn, David Huang, Haruhiko Sugimura, Lisa Wiesmuller, Ke Yang, Nadia Zaffaroni and Qimin Zhan. We also thank Drs Joanna Groden, John Groopman, Molly Kulesz-Martin, Glenn Merlino, Ainsley Weston who rotate off the Board at the end of 2005.
In July 2005, the journal launched a new open access option, part of the Oxford Open initiative (http://www.oxfordjournals.org/oxfordopen). Carcinogenesis authors may now choose to publish their work ‘open access’ in an established, high-impact journal. The decision of whether to pay for open access is made by the Corresponding author upon acceptance (importantly this decision is kept completely separate from the editorial review process). If a Carcinogenesis author chooses to pay for the open access option, their paper will be made freely available online immediately. Authors choosing to publish under the open access model are also entitled to make their article freely available in institutional and subject-based repositories immediately upon publication, thereby satisfying self-archiving policies of the Wellcome Trust among others. The journal's policies are already compliant with the NIH Public Access policy, whether or not an author chooses the open access option, as all authors are entitled to deposit their accepted manuscript (‘post-print’) 12 months after first online publication in Carcinogenesis.
Of course authors can continue to publish in the journal in the normal way for no charge—Carcinogenesis does not apply page charges, and the entire journal is made freely online after 12 months. Under the existing subscription model, the journal is immediately available to more users than ever before—over 2700 institutions currently have online access to the journal, including 800 institutions through the Developing Countries initiative (see http://www.oxfordjournals.org/access_purchase/developing_countries.html). This is in turn reflected in online usage of the journal—there are over 110 000 full-text downloads on average each month.
Looking ahead to 2006 the winners of the two biannual awards presented by Carcinogenesis will be announced at the Annual Meeting of the European Association of Cancer Research in Budapest, July 1–4, 2006. The quality of nominations for our awards continues to be excellent, and we can promise you two very stimulating lectures from the award winners at EACR 2006.
Finally I would like to thank Elizabeth Green, who is responsible for the efficient running of the Carcinogenesis Editorial Office and a true pleasure to work with, and members of the Oxford Journals team, particularly Claire Saxby and Carol Jackson, for their continued support.
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