Open access publisher BioMed Central, UK, has announced the forthcoming launch of a new journal - Silence. The journal is currently accepting submissions. David Baulcombe of the University of Cambridge and Phillip D Zamore of the University of Massachusetts Medical School, Massachusetts, serve as Editors-in-Chief of the journal. They will be supported by an internationally recognised Editorial Board.
Silence is an online, peer-reviewed open access journal that covers all aspects of genetic and epigenetic control that is mediated by RNA. The journal will feature research involving small RNA molecules, and submissions are invited describing novel insights into the biogenesis and activity of such molecules. Manuscripts describing other RNA-mediated mechanisms in prokaryotes and eukaryotes are also of interest, particularly if they involve aspects of nucleic acid biochemistry that are relevant to processes involving small RNA.
All articles published in the journal 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.
