animal, a monthly international journal of animal bioscience, has entered into a new publishing agreement with Elsevier, beginning January 1, 2021. animal is published in collaboration with the British Society of Animal Science (BSAS), the European Federation for Animal Science (EAAP) and the National Research Institute for Agriculture, Food and Environment (INRAE). The journal publishes 250 peer-reviewed articles in a year.
As part of this agreement, animal will move to Gold Open Access (OA), with all future published articles being shared worldwide.
The current publishing trend is moving strongly in the direction of Open Access as more and more journals and their authors are seeing the need to remove the ‘pay for view’ restrictions of the subscription model. In addition, a growing number of research funding institutions and companies are now requesting Open Access to increase the availability of the research they choose to support financially.
In keeping with the vision for animal to be the world’s most respected resource for animal sciences, it is believed that the move from subscription-based journals to an Open Access publishing model, making scientific articles freely available at no expense to the readers, is essential for securing the availability of animal science results to all in line with the general movement for open science publication.
Authors will realise the benefits of making their research findings more readily available, more citable and more applicable throughout the animal science sector.
Elsevier currently publishes over 400 peer-reviewed Open Access journals and has transitioned many other scientific journals from subscription models to Open Access. They will be working closely with the animal editorial staff and the current publisher (CUP), to facilitate a seamless transition of animal and any journal articles that are being processed during this transition period.
It is expected that flipping animal to open access will increase both the visibility and the impact of the high-quality research it publishes. This in turn will strengthen its position as a highly influential publication in its field, and thus support its mission to better serve its communities.
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