BioMed Central and BGI launch ‘big data’ journal GigaScience - July 11, 2012
Open access publisher BioMed Central, UK, and BGI, one of the world’s largest genomics institutes, have announced the launch of GigaScience, a new open access, open data journal with a scope that embraces all life science research that generates ‘big data’. This launch is a… Read More
Springer and Tsinghua University Press launch new open access journal - July 11, 2012
STM publisher Springer and Tsinghua University Press will jointly publish the new SpringerOpen journal, Journal of Advanced Ceramics (JAC). This new international journal claims to be the only English-language ceramics journal based in China, fully sponsored by the State Key Laboratory of New Ceramics and Fine… Read More
The Institution of Engineering and Technology announces OA initiatives - July 10, 2012
The Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) has announced the launch of a comprehensive, online-only open access journal. With this move, IET is set to become the first engineering, not-for-profit publisher to adopt an open access model. Open access options will also be added to… Read More
Human Genomics publishes first open access articles with BioMed Central - July 9, 2012
Open access publisher BioMed Central, UK, has announced that the journal Human Genomics has published its first open access articles. A peer-reviewed journal for geneticists engaged in biomedical and life science research analysing human genome data, the greater visibility afforded by open access is projected to… Read More
Springer announces impact factor increases for 2011 - July 6, 2012
STM publisher Springer Science+Business Media, Germany, has announced significant increases in impact factors throughout its journal portfolio, according to the 2011 Journal Citation Reports (JCR), published by Thomson Reuters. A total of 62 Springer journals earned their first impact factor this year, bringing the number… Read More
Oxford University Press launches new OA journal – Evolution, Medicine, and Public Health - July 6, 2012
Academic publisher Oxford University Press (OUP), UK, and the Evolution, Medicine, and Public Health Foundation have announced the launch of an open access journal - Evolution, Medicine, and Public Health (EMPH). EMPH publishes original, rigorous applications of evolutionary biology to problems in medicine and public… Read More
