In April 2010, Nature Publishing Group will launch a new journal, Nature Communications , which will publish peer-reviewed research across the biological, chemical and physical sciences, particularly papers that describe a multidisciplinary approach. The Editor will be Dr Lesley Anson, a biophysicist who up until now has been a senior editor at Nature , handling submitted manuscripts and overseeing the journal’s Insights programme. Authors will be able to publish their work either via the traditional subscription route, or as open access through payment of an article processing charge. The journal will soon have a preliminary website, and I’ll post the URL here as soon as it is available. More information is available in the company press release and on this Great Beyond blog post. There is also some immediate online reaction at Twitter and Friend Feed .