Prominent environmental health journal disappears, but it’s in transition

When the 53-year-old preeminent scientific journal Environmental Health Perspectives, published by the US National Institutes of Health (NIH), went dark at the beginning of December there was concern in the research community. This shutdown followed an announcement in April that the journal was no longer accepting new submissions because of funding constraints at the NIH and its National Institute of Environment Health Sciences (NIEHS) that funds and operates EHP. But Chemistry World has learned that the journal now expects to transition to a new non-governmental publisher, possibly in a matter of weeks.