EDITORIAL bioresources.com Hubbe & Lucia (2016). “Ten years – Oh my!” BioResources 11(1), 1-2. 1 BioResources: Ten Years of Service for the Progress of the Science and Technology of Lignocellulosic Products Martin A. Hubbe and Lucian A. Lucia The co-editors of BioResources note the completion of our first ten years. We think that the journal can be judged as a success based on having achieved an impact factor of about 1.4 each year since 2009 and having reached a publication rate of about 700 articles per year. We strive to be a “people’s journal” serving scientists, students, and society. We plan to continue emphasizing editorial pieces and review articles, which supplement our main service of publishing peer-reviewed articles dealing with the science of lignocellulosic materials, chemicals, and their uses. We also support undergraduate scholarship in our academic department, including tuition payment, opportunities for pre-editing work, and support for undergraduates to attend conferences, etc. Keywords: Journal publishing; Biomaterials; Bioproducts; Cellulose; Lignin; Wood; Paper Contact information: Department of Forest Biomaterials, College of Natural Resources; North Carolina State University, Campus Box 8005, Raleigh, NC 27695-8005; Corresponding authors: hubbe@ncsu.edu; lucian.lucia@gmail.com Where We Came From On March 21, 2006 BioResources published its first research article. That article, authored by a team from the University of Aveiro in Portugal, was an auspicious start for us – a major work that subsequently has received 23 citations. In addition to breaking new ground in exploring the effect of bleaching on the lipophilic extractives from wood pulp, the authors also demonstrated the flexibility of online publishing by presenting a key table in landscape form. It’s not quite ten years since that auspicious beginning, but the start of our Volume 11 seems an appropriate time to celebrate. In 2006 the journal published just 20 articles, if one excludes the editorial pieces. By contrast, our current rate of publication is about 700 per year. In 2006 there were many factors that could have caused a prudent author to doubt whether the journal would exist in another three years, let alone ten. For one thing, the journal was not affiliated with any publishing company or academic society. And despite being an online publication, the journal had adopted a rather quaint one-column format that looked old-fashioned. As for staff, for the first few years the work was done mainly just with the volunteer time of the co-editors themselves, with support from the college’s computer center. In year five we began to rely increasingly on undergraduate students from our academic department to help in the pre-editing of articles, which were being submitted at an increasing rate from all over the world. Any fool could have told us that it would be a bad idea to expend hours of work on improving the formatting and grammar of articles before there was any indication of whether or not a given article would later be published. And in 2010, as we began to take payments from authors to support a core staff, any fool could have told us that authors would refuse to cover the costs of publication, given the availability of numerous other scientific journals that rely on subscription fees and don’t ask authors to pay anything.