Elements – An International Magazine of Mineralogy,

Alexandria, Va. – GeoScienceWorld (GSW) is pleased to announce the immediate launch of the 35th online geoscience journal on its web site, http://www.geoscienceworld.org. Elements is now available and fully-searchable through GSW’s online portal of geoscience journals at http://elements.geoscienceworld.org. The full-text of Elements is freely available to all until February 6, 2008; after that date, full-text will be available only to GSW subscribers.

Elements was started in 2005 and quickly garnered recognition in the international community. It is published bimonthly by a consortium of mineralogical and geochemical societies. It won the AESE award for best publication in the Earth sciences in 2005 and its founder, Rod Ewing, was presented with the AESE award for Outstanding Editorial Contributions. It is now fully indexed in the ISI databases. It received its first impact factor in 2006 (1.562). Every issue of Elements explores a theme of broad and current interest in the mineral and geochemical sciences, through four to six invited peer-reviewed papers coordinated by a guest editor. These papers make up half the content of the magazine. Elements also presents regular features like a calendar of events, short-course announcements, awards, conference reports, policy news, as well as news of the Societies. In 2008, the following themes will be covered: Supervolcanoes and Their Explosive Super-Eruptions; Phosphates and Global Sustainability; Deep Earth: Recent Developments in Mineral Physics; Geological Sequestration of Carbon Dioxide, Platinum-Group Elements; and Nanogeoscience.