Abstract
This is the first editorial of the International Journal of Integrated Care to be published by our new open-access publisher, Ubiquity Press. It follows a successful 15-year period supported by Igitur at the University Library Utrecht where IJIC was the first digital journal in their portfolio. However, as integrated care has grown as a service innovation, so the ever increasing numbers of articles being submitted to IJIC means that the ‘incubation’ period of our Journal within Igitur has long since passed and so we now enter into a new venture to support a larger audience of academics, professionals and decision-makers keen to absorb the latest knowledge in this growing field of scientific inquiry.