Skip to main content

EPJ Techniques and Instrumention

The development of experimental science in the past half century has produced advances in areas such as electroncs and communications, new materials, optical technologies, computer processing techniques and biomedical science, to name just a few. These advances have in turn motivated the design of experiments that are increasingly complex, sophisticated, and ambitious, producing results of unprecedented accuracy, precision, and novelty.

As a result, fundamental research results, and the new technologies that may arise from them, are often produced using customised or purpose-built equipment, materials, or software that may exist in only one or two facilities worldwide. The design principles and techniques employed are often ground-breaking, yet results published in traditional journals often do not include the detail necessary for reproducing the work, or applying it in related areas of science. Other helpful information, such as "best practices" guides, and solutions to common problems, often does not fit within the scope of a traditional academic journal or is brushed over in the focus on the scientific outcome.

With the launch of EPJ Techniques and Instrumentation (EPJ TI) we hope to specifically address this need, encouraging the open access dissemination of detailed experimental design descriptions, experimental techniques and practices, and examples of results that arise from such experiments, that go beyond the scope of traditional scientific journal articles. The purpose of EPJ TI is to catalyze the development and adoption of next-generation techniques and technologies. We will do this through the publication of regular articles, openly submitted, and through the use of thematic series where we can stimulate the publication of important papers in contemporary research areas.

EPJ TI is an open-access journal, part of the new suite of OA titles published in the EPJ series. As such it is funded by article processing charges (APCs), but a number of initiatives are in place to assist authors if they do not have access to publication funding. These include the SpringerOpen membership scheme (http://www.springeropen.com/inst/), reduced charges for authors in developing regions, and editorial discretionary waivers. If you are considering submitting to EPJ TI but do not have the necessary funding, please contact us (epjti@edpsciences.org) and we will endeavour to help.

Author information

Authors and Affiliations

Authors

Corresponding author

Correspondence to Stephen Buckman.

Rights and permissions

Open Access  This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made.

The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article’s Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article’s Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder.

To view a copy of this licence, visit https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/.

Reprints and permissions

About this article

Check for updates. Verify currency and authenticity via CrossMark

Cite this article

Buckman, S., Grütter, P. & Hegner, M. EPJ Techniques and Instrumention. EPJ Techn Instrum 1, 1 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1140/epjti1

Download citation

  • Received:

  • Accepted:

  • Published:

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1140/epjti1