The Biochemical Society has announced that its peer-reviewed journal, Bioscience Reports, will be accepting submissions for Open Access from April 2, 2012, with the first full open access issue available from August 2012. All papers published from the August issue will be freely available online and subscriptions will no longer be charged from January 2013.
For more than 30 years Bioscience Reports has published articles on the fundamental mechanisms involved in cell biology, molecular biology and biochemistry to enable understanding of normal development and diseases.
The Biochemical Society and its publishing arm, Portland Press Ltd, are committed both to widening access to the scientific literature and to providing a fast, painless publishing experience for authors. In addition to welcoming submissions of all good-quality papers within its remit, Bioscience Reports is supported by the Biochemical Journal. The Editors of the Biochemical Journal will, with the authors’ permission, refer good-quality, sound research papers, together with the reviewers’ comments, to Bioscience Reports. Authors will then receive a swift decision on the basis of those reports, speeding up considerably the time to publication.
Bioscience Reports will be the third open access title published by Portland Press Limited, joining ASN NEURO (www.asnneuro.org) and Cell Biology International Reports (www.cellbiolintrep.org). Portland Press has also broadened access to its journal content through a number of other initiatives. All Biochemical Society journals offer ‘Opt2Pay’ so that authors can comply with funding mandates. Articles are available free or at very low cost to institutions in developing countries through the HINARI scheme. After a short embargo period, access barriers to articles in Portland Press journals are lifted. Additionally, Portland Press library licence permits ‘walk-in’ access and makes individual articles available to for rent for at a modest fee through DeepDyve.
