The Societas Europaea Lepidopterologica (SEL) has joined forces with Pensoft as our new publisher to bring the Society’s journal Nota Lepidopterologica on the way to open access and innovation. Our intentions were first announced at the SEL congress in Bulgaria in 2013 and now we are pleased to announce the first issue of the journal published in an advanced open access format at the brand new editorial platform of Pensoft (http://nl.pensoft.net).