Abstract
Scientific Online Letters on the Atmosphere (SOLA) has implemented a new policy as announced on November 24th, 2017. It is my great pleasure to announce that SOLA is a fully Open Access journal under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) License (http://creativecommons.org/license/by/4.0). This license permits readers of our papers to adapt, distribute, and reproduce the articles of SOLA in any medium, even commercially, provided that the users give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the original source, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made, without obtaining permission from the Meteorological Society of Japan (MSJ). This rule applies to the papers published in 2018 and later.
In addition, we ask the contributors to pay Article Processing Charge (APC) in order to cover the publication cost and online procedures under the Open Access policy. The APC is 80,000 Japanese Yen for members of the MSJ or 100,000 Japanese Yen for non-members of the MSJ (both with consumption tax added if applicable). Although the MSJ members enjoy the discount rate, SOLA welcomes submission from every region in the world.
From 2018, SOLA will start a new era to be one of the major platforms in the international community to disseminate scientific findings and knowledge in meteorology, atmospheric sciences, and the related fields.
