HEREDITAS was founded in 1920 and has been published uninterrupted since. As of 2005, the character of Hereditas changed, from a traditional subscription based journal, to become an open access, web based and author funded journal. Hereditas publishes original research and reviews from all sections of the genetics discipline and welcomes theoretical as well as empirical work.

Cytogenetics
Population genetics
Quantitative genetics
Theoretical genetics
Veterinary genetics
Evolutionary genetics
Clinical genetics
Molecular biology
Plant Breeding

Open access

Open access implies that everything published in Hereditas is immediately available for downloading and read for anyone with access to the internet, at no costs. The copyright stays with the author. Open access will increase the number of readers and make the published results more widely spread.

Web based

Web based means that there will no longer be a printed version of Hereditas, but the articles will only be accessible on the internet through Wiley Interscience. Also articles published prior to 2005 can be accessed via Internet on Synergy Wiley Interscience.

Copyright

Upon submission of an article to Hereditas, authors must be aware the rights concerning open access publishing. This permits any user to download, print, extract, archive and distribute the article, as long as appropriate credits are given to the original source and to the author(s) of the work. Upon publication, Hereditas will be available to anyone through Synergy with absolute open access. The transfer of the publication fee too Hereditas is considered as an approval from the authors of these rights.

Publication charge

The publication of articles in Hereditas is funded by the authors, i. e. the author is paying for the manuscript peer reviewing and processing. Upon submission the author is charged a submission fee that covers the handling of the manuscripts prior to acceptance. Once the manuscript is accepted for publication, the author will be charged a publication fee covering editing, typesetting etc. The publication charge is set as low as possible for the benefit of the authors. We are convinced that that this is most important, since Hereditas have had an increasing amount of papers from financially less favoured regions of the world. Hereditas is run by a non-profit foundation and as for today, Hereditas cannot subsidise any publishing. (See Guide for authors).

Editorial policy

The change in publication practice does not mean any changes in the editorial policy and peer-review process. All manuscripts will be peer reviewed by at least two referees. The Editorial Board will guarantee a contstant high scientific standard. In other words, it will thus not be possible to “purchase a place in the sun”. One thing will, however, change. The handlingtime of manuscripts will be reduced considerably. Hereditas guarantees that from the editorial side, accepted manuscripts will be published, i. e. available on the internet, no more than three months following submission, provided there are no lags from the author’s side.

Editorial Board
Editor-in-Chief: Stefan Baumgartner, Lund, Sweden

Subject Editors:

Andreas Börner, Gatersleben, Germany
Bengt Hansson, Lund, Sweden
Robert Hasterok, Katowice, Poland
Pilar Hernandez, Cordoba, Spain
Mattias Jacobsson, Uppsala, Sweden
Dieter Maier, Stuttgart, Germany
Seppo Nokkala, Turku, Finland
Anssi Saura, Helsinki, Finland
David Gisselsson, Lund, Sweden.

Managing Editor
Petter Oscarson, Lund, Sweden

Publisher information
Hereditas (ISSN 1601-5223) is published by Oikos Editorial Office on behalf of the Mendelian Society.

Hereditas is typeset by Deanta Globa, India.

Editorial office:
Hereditas Editorial Office
Ecology Building
Lund University
SE-223 62 Lund
Sweden
phone +46 222 37 92
e-mail: hereditas@oikosoffice.lu.se

Correspondence
All correspondence should be addressed to the Managing Editor.