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In December 2013, UC Press’s mission-driven, trans-disciplinary, open-access journal Elementa: Science of the Anthropocene published its first article, ushering in its motto, “Open Science for Public Good.” In this blog post we pause to reflect and take note of some of the publication hig...

Jody Deming is the Karl M. Banse Endowed Professor Emerita of Oceanography at the University of Washington, whose research examines microbial life in extreme oceanic environments with a recent focus on Arctic sea ice and related settings. Professor Deming is the current and founding Edito...

Maywa Montenegro is Assistant Professor in the Environmental Studies department at the University of California, Santa Cruz and was previously a UC President’s Postdoctoral Fellow at UC Davis. Dr. Montenegro is a social scientist who has published extensively on topics including agroecolo...

Chuan-Chou (River) Shen is a geochemist and Distinguished Chair Professor in the Department of Geosciences at National Taiwan University. He has authored numerous articles documenting both modern and paleoclimate changes in ocean environments, and which have made significant contributions...

Marcel Nicolaus is a sea ice physicist at the Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research; Matthew Shupe is a research scientists with the Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences at the University of Colorado and at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Admi...

At UC Press, open access—the free, immediate, unrestricted, online access to peer-reviewed research and scholarly work—is central to our mission to amplify scholarship that has the potential to fundamentally change how people think, lead, and live. Who benefits from open access? Everyo...

Dibujo en carboncillo de un coronavirus (charcoal drawing of a coronavirus). Image credit: Soledad Miranda-Rottmann, Wikimedia Commons The global coronavirus pandemic has already affected most of the planet in innumerable ways. Beyond its devastating human health toll, we are witnessin...

Steven Allison is a microbial and ecosystem ecologist in the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology and the Department of Earth System Science at the University of California, Irvine. He recently joined UC Press’s open-access journal Elementa: Science of the Anthropocene as Editor...

Elementa has an Impact Factor of 3.518. We congratulate and thank all the editors, authors, reviewers, and journal founder, BioOne, who have stewarded the journal into the high-quality publication it is today. Elementa: Science of the Anthropocene is an open-access, non-profit, interdi...