Dear Colleagues,

we hope to attract further papers to the special issue on "Femtochemistry" in Structural Dynamics! 
Please consider to submit your work related to the field of femtochemistry and -biology, as well as ultrafast structural dynamics of molecules and (bio)chemical systems in the widest sense, to this special issue. The topical selection and the open access nature of the journal will provide the widest possible dissemination of your paper, and the joint publication of all papers in a single issue provides high visibility.

Following requests for deadline extensions and the upcoming holiday period, the deadline has been extended to 15. February 2016. 
Of course, all accepted papers are published online and assigned a DOI immediately and are, thus, also instantly fully citable.

Submission for papers is open at http://sd.peerx-press.org/cgi-bin/main.plex

We look forward to your contributions to this very special issue.


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See http://www.femto12.org/special_issue for further information and updates – please distribute this information as you feel appropriate.


       Collected papers from the Hamburg Conference on Femtochemistry.


The open access journal Structural Dynamics dedicates a special issue to the Hamburg conference on Femtochemistry (FEMTO12), guest edited by Jochen Küpper. We invite contributions to this special issue.

Structural Dynamics is a relatively new open access and online-only ISI-indexed journal edited by Majed Chergui, which is now accepting submissions for a special issue on the Hamburg Conference on Femtochemistry. Structural Dynamics is co-published by ACA and AIP Publishing. It highlights research articles on structural determination and dynamics of systems. This includes, but is not limited to, experiments enabled by the emerging new instruments -- e.g., XFELs, VUV-XUV HHG sources, electron sources, etc. -- and new experimental and theoretical methodologies in Structural Dynamics and the field of femtochemistry in general. Average time from submission to publication in Structural Dynamics is less than 70 days.

Topics of this special issue include all those represented at the Hamburg conference on Femtochemistry, in the widest sense, and we encourage all participants of FEMTO12 to submit a paper. However, it is not required that the submitted work was presented at the Hamburg conference on Femtochemistry.

Submission opened on 1. August 2015 at http://sd.peerx-press.org. Manuscripts should be submitted no later than 15. November 2015, i.e., 4 months after the conference. All articles will be published online and are fully citable immediately after acceptance — you do not have to wait for your work to be citable until the special issue is complete.

FEMTO12 has received a substantial discount on Open Access publication charges by AIP Publishing. The submission fee has been reduced from US$ 2200 to US$ 1500 for all contributions to this special issue. Furthermore, for authors that do not have the financial resource to support the full fee, we will be able to provide additional reductions or provide a waiver on a case by case basis. Let me point out that this financial support relies on a fair number of paid submissions, at least about fifteen, in order to provide a basic amount of funding required by the publishers for the special issue.

In order to plan the issue financially, please inform the guest editor, Jochen Küpper <[log in to unmask]> of your planned submissions to this special issue and whether you will be able to pay the full open-access fees or request a discount or waiver at your earliest convenience, preferably including a tentative title of your contribution. In order to enable us to confirm the discounts, it is important that you do provide us with your planned submissions, even when you plan to pay the full publication fee. Moreover, while we do not want to enforce payment nor actual submission, we rely on the provided information to be realistic. Finally, payment of fees is no guarantee of acceptance, this will solely be determined by peer review. An invoice will be sent to those authors that have committed to pay the fee after their paper is accepted.

For further questions, please do not hesitate to contact the guest editor, Jochen Küpper <[log in to unmask]>, or the editor-in-chief, Majed Chergui <[log in to unmask]>.

Best wishes,
Jochen
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Univ.-Prof. Dr. Jochen Küpper

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