Welcome to FASEB BioAdvances, the new open access journal by the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology (FASEB)

Although the idea of starting an open access journal had been discussed for years, the need for it became clear at FASEB's Publications and Communications Committee meeting in March 2016. The increased uptake of open access publishing in The FASEB Journal made it evident that there was strong and growing demand for this type of publishing among authors and their funders, and that this demand was likely not being met fully by The FASEB Journal's hybrid open access approach. Furthermore, given The FASEB Journal's selectivity based on publishing priority, not all studies will be published, regardless of how well the experiments are designed and conducted. This leaves a number of authors and potential authors seeking to publish multi/transdisciplinary work with FASEB for whom The FASEB Journal may not be the best fit. Finally, as the focus toward reproducibility intensifies, FASEB wanted to provide a venue where scientists can publish reports covering their ability (or inability) to replicate published experiments. Because these reports lack the novelty of new experimentation, they would likely never be published in The FASEB Journal, despite their critical importance to working scientists