The Biophysical Society and Institute of Physics Publishing (IOPP) are engaged in a new and exciting initiative to create a series of ebooks that aim to “create a library to define biophysics.”  These ebooks will allow authors an unprecedented level of flexibility to incorporate dynamic links to online sites, animations, real time simulations, and other resources to get their material across in a timely and exciting manner. In addition, this format will allow for rapid publication and convenient updating to maintain their timeliness. Books will also be available in print on-demand.

Overseeing this venture is the BPS-IOP Editorial Advisory Board (EAB) consisting of BPS members who represent a number of different subject areas within biophysics, and include leading investigators working in the areas of ion channel biophysics, exocytosis, molecular fluorescence, cell and molecular modeling, biomechanics, and RNA and protein biophysics. The board has been charged by the BPS Publications Committee with inaugurating and guiding the development of this new series. The plan is to produce ebooks that might take the form of textbooks, focused monographs, compiled lecture notes, and up to date reports from special topic symposia sponsored by the BPS.

Already, the first book in the series, The Physics of Cancer by Dr. Claudia T. Mierke, was published in October and several more are either “in the pipeline” or in the form of proposals to be considered soon.  

Future titles being considered include ebooks on calcium signaling, TIRF microscopy, laboratory programming for biophysicists, light-sheet microscopy, exocytosis, and cryo-EM, among others. The goal of the EBM is to produce 5–6 new titles to per year.

If you have an idea for a book you’d like to see (you don’t have to write it!), or know someone who might be interested in submitting a book proposal, please contact commissioning editor Jessica Fricchione at [email protected], or speak with a member of the EAB.

--Les Satin, Chair

BPS-IOP Editorial Advisory Board