Journal of Biomedical Optics

The Journal of Biomedical Optics (JBO) publishes peer-reviewed papers on the use of modern optical technology for improved health care and biomedical research.

Calls for Papers:
View the JBO Editorial Schedule to see a list of upcoming special sections.

New JBO Editor-in-Chief:
Lihong Wang has been appointed the new JBO Editor-in-Chief, effective January 2010. Wang talks about the journal in a video interview. For more information, read the press release and an editorial by outgoing Editor-in-Chief Bruce Tromberg.

Open Access Options:
JBO offers authors three open access options:

1. Delayed open access: For authors who pay the voluntary page charges of $90 per published page in full, papers will become open access 12 months after the date of publication. This policy is effective as of the September/October 2009 issue of JBO. This option is not available to authors who have published in prior issues of JBO.
2. Immediate open access: Authors have the option to pay an open access fee of $1500 to provide free online access to the full text of their paper immediately upon publication.
3. JBO Letters: All papers published in JBO Letters are automatically open access. Voluntary page charges still apply.

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PubMed Central Deposits:
All JBO articles that are identified as being funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) are now deposited in PubMed Central (PMC) upon publication, as of September 2009. This is a free service provided by the publisher and requires no action on the part of the author. Within a few weeks of online publication, the final article will be deposited in PMC, along with the associated metadata. Authors will be provided with the PMC ID number via e-mail, once it has been assigned. Note that the full text of the article will not become available on PMC until after a one-year embargo period. For more information about the NIH Public Access Policy, see http://publicaccess.nih.gov/.