Welcome with Open arms!

I’m thrilled to launch ERJ Open Research, the latest addition to the European Respiratory Society (ERS) publications portfolio. Our new journal will be built on the following principles: rigorous peer review; rapid responsive publication; open access; and high production values. The rationale As with any new publication product, there should be a clear need for it to exist. Market research revealed that there was a gap in the market for a high-quality, open-access respiratory journal that offers low author fees and robust peer review. Basic and translational scientists in particular are under-served in the respiratory journals sector, and the relevance of their work is too often not communicated well to those working on the clinical side. The top respiratory journals, including the European Respiratory Journal (ERJ), have space for only a fraction of the excellent research that is being done, within Europe and elsewhere. That research deserves to be published and to be read. The European Respiratory Society (ERS), as a broad-based, research-driven society with a strong publishing presence, is ideally placed to meet this need. ERJ Open Research fits neatly into the ERS publications portfolio, alongside the journals ERJ, European Respiratory Review and Breathe [1], which serves authors and readers in every walk of respiratory life, from traineeship to tenure and from bench to bedside