We have a new publisher: John Wiley & Sons (2007)

This is the first issue of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Education (BAMBED) that is being published by John Wiley & Sons. We are very enthusiastic about this new publishing arrangement and the considerable publishing expertise that will be brought to bear by this venerable company. The two most exciting new aspects you will see in the journal are online manuscript submission and free online availability of journal content after a two-year hold. In an attempt to save trees where possible and make our review process more efficient in the process, we have instituted an online submission system at mc.manuscriptcentral.com/bambed. Those who send us manuscripts via E-mail or in hard copy will be instructed to use our online submission process. Authors will now upload their manuscripts as Microsoft Word documents and their figures as TIFF or EPS files. These are then automatically converted to PDF files for our editors and reviewers to critique. The system will automatically log the manuscript into the system, respond to the author about its receipt, and notify the editor of its existence. By selecting from a list of preset keywords, the author can alert the editors to the specific content of the manuscript so that it can be sent to reviewers with the appropriate expertise. Authors can track their manuscripts within the system. With the system automatically tracking the manuscripts and alerting the editors to delays, the flow of manuscripts within the system will be significantly improved over our previous manual system. We will continue to have manuscripts undergo two reviews and will continue to publish the highest quality materials available. In addition to providing helpful keywords, authors can assign their manuscripts to one of many manuscript categories. These categories are shown in Table 1. Articles that utilize web links will have those links “live” in the html version of the article. It is therefore possible to publish a tutorial, for example, that utilizes links to other websites. The reader will be able to utilize these links directly from the online version of the article. Software, mp3 files, computer-based exercises, PowerPoint presentations, etc. may be described in a short print article with the computer-based file itself available as supplementary material on the website, which will continue to be www.bambed.org. All articles will now be freely available after a two-year hold. Three years of BAMBED articles (2002–2004) are already freely available at the website. Soon we will also be adding PDF files of back issues prior to 2002 to the list of freely available materials on an incremental basis. We will be featuring articles in coming issues that will form a bridge between science education research and science educators. We have noticed that those who do research on science education publish their results in journals that are not necessarily read or utilized by science educators, making the results of the research less useful to the very people they should be serving. In the hope of bridging this gap, we hope to publish short descriptions of science education articles that have appeared in the science education research literature that we think are particularly useful to science educators interested in using innovative teaching techniques. As always, the success of BAMBED depends upon the submission of interesting and useful articles by our dedicated and enthusiastic authors, as well as on comments and suggestions from our readers. We look forward to continuing to receive your manuscripts and comments.