'Game-changing' new option is Open Access Week highlight for optics and photonics publisher USA Journal editors are expressing enthusiastic support for a new open access option announced recently by SPIE, the international society for optics and photonics. The new program provides Gold Open Access upon publication for a journal article for which authors or their institutions pay voluntary page charges, beginning in January 2013. Authors will retain copyright under the Creative Commons CC-BY license. In adding to the options available to authors and readers, the program gives SPIE even more cause to recognize Open Access Week 2012 (22-28 October), organized by SPARC, the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition. "This is a game changer for the Journal of Biomedical Optics ," said Samuel Achilefu , Washington University in St. Louis, a member of the journal's editorial board. The new program covers articles published in: Optical Engineering Journal of Biomedical Optics Journal of Electronic Imaging (co-published with IS&T) Journal of Micro/Nanolithography, MEMS, and MOEMS Journal of Applied Remote Sensing Journal of Nanophotonics Journal of Photonics for Energy . "We are excited about this new approach and think it will serve authors and readers alike," said Optical Engineering Editor Ronald Driggers , U.S. Naval Research Lab. Chris Mack , Editor of the Journal of Microlithography, MEMS, and MOEMS (JM 3 ), and Akhlesh Lakhtakia of Pennsylvania State University, Editor of the Journal of Nanophotonics , both acknowledged the complex economics of journal publishing in praising the new program. "As with many peer-reviewed