RSC Publishing is set to further increase its journal portfolio from January 2009 following announcement of the launch of two new interdisciplinary journals. 

Integrative Biology: Quantitative biosciences from nano to macro will provide a unique venue for research that leads to a greater understanding of biological processes and mechanisms. Highly interdisciplinary, it will focus on quantitative multi-scale biology using enabling technologies and tools to exploit the convergence of biology with physics, chemistry, engineering, imaging and informatics. The Editorial Board Chair is Mina J. Bissell from Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, US. 

Metallomics: Integrated biometal science will cover the research fields related to metals in biological systems and is expected to be the core publication for the emerging metallomics community. Metallomics is receiving great attention as a new frontier in the investigation of trace elements in biology and is expected to develop as an interdisciplinary science complementary to genomics and proteomics. Joseph A. Caruso of University of Cincinnati/Agilent Technologies Metallomics Center of the Americas, and a leading player in this emerging field, will Chair the Editorial Board. 

From launch, the latest issue of both Integrative Biology and Metallomics will be freely available online to all readers. Free institutional access to previous issues throughout 2009 and 2010 will be available following a simple registration process, using a model that has proved extremely popular for the latest RSC title to launch: Energy & Environmental Science. The first Advance Articles for this journal have just been published online, an event eagerly awaited by the community that has welcomed the new journal so enthusiastically. 

RSC Publishing boasts an accomplished record in successfully launching new products. Ground-breaking interdisciplinary journals Soft Matter and Molecular BioSystems, both launched in 2005, continue to go from strength to strength as solo publications. With Integrative Biology, Metallomics and Energy & Environmental Science set to follow in their footsteps, RSC Publishing again reinforces its position as a world-class scientific publisher.