<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium; ">** Apologies for Cross-Posting **</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium; "><br></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium; "><br></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium; ">BioOne and Dartmouth Collaborate with Other Leading Research</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium; "><br></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium; ">Universities to Launch Elementa: Science of the Anthropocene, a New</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium; "><br></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium; ">Open-Access Scientific Journal</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium; "><br></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium; "><br></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium; ">October 23rd, 2012 – Washington, DC & Hanover, NH. BioOne and</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium; "><br></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium; ">Dartmouth are pleased to announce the upcoming launch of Elementa:</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium; "><br></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium; ">Science of the Anthropocene, a new open-access publishing program.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium; "><br></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium; ">Elementa was created through a collaboration among BioOne, Dartmouth,</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium; "><br></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium; ">and several other leading research universities, and will publish</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium; "><br></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium; ">original research that will report new knowledge of the Earth's</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium; "><br></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium; ">physical, chemical, and biological systems during this era of human</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium; "><br></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium; ">impacts. Elementa will publish contributions that explore feedbacks</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium; "><br></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium; ">between human and natural systems, and steps that can be taken to</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium; "><br></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium; ">ameliorate harmful changes.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium; "><br></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium; "><br></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium; ">With the first articles scheduled to appear in July 2013, Elementa</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium; "><br></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium; ">will attract reports of fundamental advancements in research organized</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium; "><br></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium; ">initially into six domains, embracing the concept that basic knowledge</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium; "><br></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium; ">can foster sustainable solutions for society. Each knowledge domain</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium; "><br></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium; ">will be led by its own Editor-in-Chief, who will soon be joined by an</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium; "><br></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium; ">international team of prominent Associate Editors. The initial</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium; "><br></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium; ">Editorial team includes:</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium; "><br></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium; ">* Atmospheric Science: Detlev Helmig, University of Colorado Boulder</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium; "><br></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium; ">* Earth and Environmental Science: Joel D. Blum, University of Michigan</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium; "><br></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium; ">* Ecology: Donald R. Zak, University of Michigan</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium; "><br></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium; ">* Ocean Science: Jody W. Deming, University of Washington</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium; "><br></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium; ">* Sustainable Engineering: Michael E. Chang, Georgia Institute of Technology</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium; "><br></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium; ">* Sustainability Sciences: Anne Kapuscinski and David R. Peart, Dartmouth</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium; "><br></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium; "><br></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium; ">Published by BioOne and with production services at the Dartmouth</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium; "><br></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium; ">College Library, Elementa is committed to a unique structure, approach</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium; "><br></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium; ">and goals:</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium; "><br></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium; ">* Collaborative and strategic - the respective missions of BioOne and</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium; "><br></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium; ">partner institutions emphasize strategic partnerships that maximize</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium; "><br></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium; ">the dissemination of critical research;</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium; "><br></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium; ">* Knowledge driven - Elementa will publish fundamental advancements</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium; "><br></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium; ">in research, available to all scientists, to further new knowledge of</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium; "><br></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium; ">how humans are profoundly altering the Earth's physical, chemical and</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium; "><br></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium; ">biological processes and of how humans can transform these trends to</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium; "><br></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium; ">move civilization towards sustainability;</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium; "><br></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium; ">* Open Access - all Elementa content will be freely available,</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium; "><br></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium; ">without embargo, as a public good;</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium; "><br></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium; ">* Rapidly but Rigorously Reviewed - Elementa is committed to the</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium; "><br></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium; ">publication of the highest quality research through a rigorous and</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium; "><br></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium; ">timely peer-review process;</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium; "><br></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium; ">* Campus based - Elementa is the first model of its kind to be both</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium; "><br></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium; ">based at, and managed in partnership with, the university research</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium; "><br></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium; ">enterprise.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium; "><br></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium; "><br></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium; ">Dartmouth President, Carol L. Folt stated: “In hosting the production</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium; "><br></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium; ">of Elementa, Dartmouth is pleased to take a leadership role in</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium; "><br></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium; ">campus-based publishing collaboration, with the goal of openly sharing</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium; "><br></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium; ">critical research on some of the most challenging issues in the</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium; "><br></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium; ">contemporary world. This open-access model serves an urgent need - to</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium; "><br></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium; ">bring the best scholarship to bear more directly on serious global</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium; "><br></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium; ">issues.”</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium; "><br></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium; "><br></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium; ">Susan Skomal, BioOne Executive Director and COO, commented: “Elementa</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium; "><br></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium; ">is a natural direction for BioOne to pursue insofar as it exemplifies</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium; "><br></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium; ">the organization's fundamental mission to foster sustainable scholarly</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium; "><br></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium; ">publishing through close collaboration with the scholarly</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium; "><br></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium; ">communications community. The enthusiastic engagement by the leading</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium; "><br></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium; ">universities represented by our Editors-in-Chief, and by Dartmouth as</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium; "><br></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium; ">the production base, provide the foundation for Elementa's commitment</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium; "><br></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium; ">to high-quality research.”</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium; "><br></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium; "><br></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium; ">"SPARC is delighted with the development of this collaborative</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium; "><br></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium; ">venture,” said Heather Joseph, Scholarly Publishing and Academic</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium; "><br></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium; ">Resources Coalition Executive Director. “It is exciting to see BioOne</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium; "><br></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium; ">continue its positive evolution to include a campus-based, Open Access</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium; "><br></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium; ">component, and we're particularly pleased to see a strong emphasis on</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium; "><br></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium; ">data integration. Elementa will be a welcome new contribution to the</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium; "><br></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium; ">scholarly landscape."</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium; "><br></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium; "><br></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium; ">Elementa’s first articles will be accepted in April 2013 and the</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium; "><br></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium; ">official launch is expected for July 2013. For all inquiries, please</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium; "><br></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium; ">contact the Program Director, Mark Kurtz, at</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium; "><br></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium; "><a href="mailto:mkurtz@elementascience.org">mkurtz@elementascience.org</a> or visit <a href="http://www.elementascience.org">www.elementascience.org</a>.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium; "><br></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium; "><br></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium; ">###</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium; "><br></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium; "><br></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium; ">Notes to Editors:</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium; "><br></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium; ">For more information, please contact:</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium; "><br></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium; ">Mark Kurtz</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium; "><br></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium; ">Tel: 202.540.9968</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium; "><br></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium; ">Email: <a href="mailto:mkurtz@elementascience.org">mkurtz@elementascience.org</a></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium; "><br></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium; "><br></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium; ">About BioOne:</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium; "><br></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium; ">Established in 1999, BioOne is the product of innovative collaboration</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium; "><br></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium; ">among scientific societies, libraries, academe, and the private</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium; "><br></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium; ">sector, united in the common goal of maximizing access to critical</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium; "><br></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium; ">research. BioOne's mission includes the exploration of economic models</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium; "><br></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium; ">and strategic partnerships that balance the needs of all scholarly</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium; "><br></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium; ">communications stakeholders. BioOne offers cost-effective access to</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium; "><br></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium; ">critical scientific research through its content aggregation of 171</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium; "><br></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium; ">society, museum, and institutionally sponsored publications in the</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium; "><br></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium; ">biological, ecological, and environmental sciences, at <a href="http://www.bioone.org">www.bioone.org</a>.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium; "><br></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium; "><br></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium; ">Through a core collaboration with leading research institutions, and</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium; "><br></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium; ">with Dartmouth as the production base, BioOne is now also publisher of</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium; "><br></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium; ">Elementa: Science of the Anthropocene, an open-access, campus-based</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium; "><br></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium; ">publication program focused on anthropogenic influences on the global</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium; "><br></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium; ">environment and amelioration of harmful changes, coming in 2013 at</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium; "><br></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium; "><a href="http://www.elementascience.org">www.elementascience.org</a>.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium; "><br></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium; "><br></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium; ">About Dartmouth:</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium; "><br></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium; ">Founded in 1769, Dartmouth is a member of the Ivy League and</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium; "><br></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium; ">consistently ranks among the world's greatest colleges and</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium; "><br></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium; ">universities. Dartmouth has forged a singular identity for combining</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium; "><br></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium; ">its deep commitment to outstanding undergraduate liberal arts and</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium; "><br></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium; ">graduate education with distinguished research and scholarship in the</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium; "><br></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium; ">arts and sciences and its three leading professional schools—the</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium; "><br></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium; ">Geisel School of Medicine, Thayer School of Engineering, and the Tuck</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium; "><br></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium; ">School of Business.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium; "><br></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium; "><br></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium; ">Dartmouth College Library is committed to innovation in the</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium; "><br></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium; ">open-access, campus-based publishing movement and has an active</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium; "><br></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium; ">Digital Library Program. It is dedicated to building collaborations to</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium; "><br></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium; ">support scholarly publishing for its students and faculty, and has</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium; "><br></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium; ">demonstrated that commitment by collaborating with the University</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium; "><br></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium; ">Press of New England and others.</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium; "><br></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; ">Mark Kurtz, Director of Business Development</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><o:p></o:p></font></div></div><div style="font-size: medium; "><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; "><span style="font-size: 9pt; color: black; ">BioOne | 21 Dupont Circle Suite 800 | Washington, DC 20036<o:p></o:p></span></div></div><div style="font-size: medium; "><a href="mailto:mkurtz@elementascience.org">mkurtz@elementascience.org</a> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; ">| 202-296-1605 ext. 5</span></div><div style="font-size: medium; "><br></div></span><br class="Apple-interchange-newline">
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