Elsevier publishes medical and scientific literature. It is a part of the Reed Elsevier group. Based in Amsterdam, the company has operations in the United Kingdom, USA and elsewhere. Elsevier publishes 250,000 articles a year in 2000 journals. Its archives contain seven million publications. Total yearly downloads amount to 240 million.

Leading products include journals including The Lancet and Cell, books such as Gray's Anatomy, the ScienceDirect collection of electronic journals, as well as the Trends series, and the Current Opinion series. More recently Elsevier launched the online citation database Scopus and the free researcher collaboration tool 2collab.

This publishing house can be your one stop shop to get material from IPY-OSC published. For those who have still to make publishing arrangements, here are three options offered by Elsevier, to collect multiple articles under one cover:

Special issues

Special issues are collections of full-length research papers, sometimes accompanied by one or two opening review articles that are published as part of a journal's normal page run. They are usually, but certainly not always, based on a conference session and guest edited by a small group of guest editors, such as the session organizers, who are authorities in their field.  We typically solicit for the submission of research papers or review articles, rather than conference proceedings.

The idea for an issue may come from the session organizers or the authors. The guest editors are usually responsible for inviting contributors to submit (hence defining the issue's scope), for choosing referees, for driving the review and the general organization process to a timely conclusion, and for making publication recommendations to the journal editor.

The final decision on each paper rests with the journal editor, who also oversees the entire process, but the guest editors are instrumental in maintaining the integrity of the entire review process such that it is identical with the standard maintained for regular submissions to the journal. Journals select guest editors who they see, not only as authorities in their field but also as maintaining a high level of science within the community generally. Procedures for special issues vary according to journal. Please click here to view the Elsevier publications available and their Publishing contact.

Accepted papers appear online in http://www.sciencedirect.com/ about 2 weeks after acceptance. This means that each paper is published on-line more-or-less immediately after it leaves review/revision and does not wait for the last paper to be accepted.

Supplements

The rationale, reviewing standard and standard of science for supplements is identical to those for special issues. However, supplements differ from special issues in that they are published in addition to the journal's normal page run and scheduled number of issues. This means that they are funded by, for example, the meeting organizers'/guest editors' organization. The advantages of supplements are:

• They are not constrained by the normal page run. They therefore appear more quickly after acceptance by "going to the head of the queue".
• They provide additional content to the community.
• The funding organization is provided with excellent visibility by means of acknowledgement in both the printed and ScienceDirect version. For example: Requests for ScienceDirect full-text articles Marine Geology Nov 09 - 31,294  http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/02648172
• In addition to the optional dissemination to journal subscribers, supplements can be made available to non-subscribers via non-printable PDFs on the funding organization's website.

Journals that publish special issues and supplements are listed in the Excel you can download above. 

The Publications Manager Jetske Rodvoets j.roodvoets@elsevier.com will provide details for publishing Supplements upon request.   

Procedia: Earth and Planetary Science

Procedia is an electronic-only platform for conference proceedings that is hosted by ScienceDirect. The rationale and reviewing process differs from special issues and supplements in that extremely fast dissemination on exceptionally topical subjects in usually short papers is the main criterion.

The conference organizers are solely responsible for the content. There is no limit on the number of published papers. There is a publication fee, which is related to the number of pages per paper and the total number of papers. There are also opportunities to purchase paper copies or additional, electronic, media; this includes webcasts of the conference. Once published, Procedia are freely accessible - i.e., without charge.

The Procedia Coordinator Frank Wang  f.wang@elsevier.com will provide details for publishing Procedia upon request.