Why publish in Fly?

Fly strives to be a definitive resource that will promote the field.

Average 25-day turnaround from manuscript submission to decision.

Flexible formats for papers: no pre-set lengths for papers; no pre-set formats; your creative ideas will be considered; papers will be considered by Fly regardless of length.

Lower publication costs than most journals.

All papers are made open access after one year. Open access may be purchased at the time of acceptance making your paper free to all readers from the day it is first published online. Optional open access can be purchased for $750.

Fly is abstracted/indexed in: Medline/PubMed, Science Citation Index Expanded (available as Current Contents/Life Sciences, Zoological Record, Biological Abstract and Biosis Previews).

Everyone in the Drosophila community will see your paper. All papers are published online and can be downloaded as PDFs. Our website draws researchers by featuring Fly Jobs where you can announce or seek an open postdoc position, and FlyBay, an interactive feature where you can ask the community for a particular chromosome, reagent, transgene, plasmid, etc. On FlyBay you can also advertise if you have a tool that you would like to share.

About Fly

Fly is the first international peer-reviewed journal to focus exclusively on Drosophila research.

Fly publishes broadly three general types of papers: original research, methods and technical advances and reviews and meeting reports.

Fly topics in Drosophila research include: cell biology, development, gene regulation, chromosome dynamics, behavior, evolution, population biology, neurobiology, molecular biology and biochemistry, genomics and anything else that we might have left out or might come along.

We will distinguish Fly from other journals in two important ways.

First, we plan to have regular features of specific interest to the Drosophila community. For example: What's new on Flybase? How do I get my hands on all of those new stocks for doing that new cool technique? Who are the new researchers in the Drosophila field and what are they doing? What really great Drosophila papers were published recently? What's happening in those fields of Drosophila research outside my own? Is it possible to get a grant to do Drosophila research these days?

Second, we want the journal to be highly interactive. We plan to develop a lively Letters to the Editor section, where issues of interest to the Drosophila community can be discussed, and where researchers can ask questions (and get answers!) about new resources and about how to obtain materials, comment on recent papers, make suggestions for new features in Fly, etc.