SPIE, an international society advancing light-based research, has announced that authors of papers accepted for the Journal of Biomedical Optics (JBO) may choose from an expanded suite of open access options now including delayed open access publication. The latest SPIE journal open access option provides JBO authors, who pay standard voluntary page charges in full, with open access for their papers in the SPIE Digital Library beginning one year after publication.
Since September 2009, JBO articles identified as being funded by the US National Institutes of Health are deposited in the open access PubMed Central collection where the full text is available after one year. The service is provided by SPIE at no cost to the author.
SPIE publishes two fully open access journals - SPIE Letters virtual journal and SPIE Reviews. SPIE Letters virtual journal is a collection of letters from all SPIE research journals, in publication since 2006 with voluntary page charges. SPIE Reviews, which launched this year, does not ask for author payment. Both open access journals are published online at no cost to authors. Authors publishing in any of the other seven SPIE journals may ensure immediate open access publication of their papers by paying a per paper fee of $1,500.
New SPIE journal papers are published online in the SPIE Digital Library as they complete peer review and production. The SPIE Digital Library is hosted on the American Institute of Physics' Scitation platform with audio and video multimedia, flexible search, and extensive CrossRef linking features. The library claims to be the world's largest resource for optics and photonics research with about 296,000 journal and proceedings articles from 1990 to the present.
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