The Royal Society, the UK's national academy of science, has announced the official launch of Open Biology, a new open access journal covering research in cellular and molecular aspects of biology. The journal is the Society's first wholly open access and online-only journal.
The new journal will publish original, high quality, research in cell biology, developmental and structural biology, molecular biology, biochemistry, neuroscience, immunology, microbiology and genetics. The funding required to make Open Biology open access will derive from article-processing charges.
The journal will be overseen by a team of academic Subject Editors with support by an international Editorial Board. Professor David Glover of Cambridge University has been appointed Editor-in-Chief. The launch complements the Royal Society's existing hybrid, optional open access journals and open access-friendly policies.
The journal's official launch event, scheduled for October 17, coincides with the publication of the journal's first ever paper, in which Steven Baker and colleagues use an innovative approach based on high-resolution genotyping and GPS data to look at the transmission of typhoid, with the results having profound implications for typhoid control.
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