Open access publisher BioMed Central, UK, has announced that Genetics Selection Evolution has recently joined the growing number of journals opting to transfer to BioMed Central's open access platform. Overseen by Editor-in-Chief Didier Boichard, the journal presents original research that will aid understanding of the genetics and selective mechanisms in farm and experimental animals.
Genetics Selection Evolution invites basic, applied and methodological content and publishes results from all levels of study - from the gene to the quantitative trait, from the individual to the population, breed or species. The journal welcomes material concerning both biological as well as mathematical approaches. In the inaugural Editorial that opens the journal's forty-first year of publication, Executive Editor Helene Hayes reflects on the collective sentiment of the journal's Editors, explaining "Converting GSE to open access to provide an online journal freely accessible to all readers without charge is an opportunity we did not want to miss."
All articles published in Genetics Selection Evolution's will be archived in PubMed Central, the US National Library of Medicine's full-text repository of life science literature, and also at INIST in France and in e-Depot, the National Library of the Netherlands' digital archive of all electronic publications. The journal is also participating in the British Library's e-journals pilot project, and plans to deposit copies of all articles with the British Library.
