Nature Geoscience, to launch in January 2008, now has a preliminary website. In its call for papers, the journal states that it is accepting submissions of manuscripts reporting significant new research in the Earth and planetary sciences, aimed at a broad interdisciplinary audience of geoscientists. Read the Guide to Authors and submit your papers via the journal’s online submission system.

Also on the “pre launch” website are research highlights: short summaries of key research papers in the discipline, written by the journal’s editors. You can expect to find several new research highlights per week between now and the journal’s launch in January. The editors are also busy commissioning review articles and processing the many manuscripts that have already been submitted to the journal. Vist Nature Geoscience for information about how to subscribe and other news about this exciting new publication from the Nature journals.