Academic publisher Taylor & Francis Group, a division of Informa UK Ltd., is marking Open Access Week by announcing a range of new open access (OA) journals and an enhancement of its current OA programme for 2012. These initiatives will encompass publications from across the range of science, social and behavioural sciences and humanities subjects.
Taylor & Francis' current iOpenAccess option will be renamed for 2012 as Taylor & Francis Open Select. It will continue to give authors and their sponsors the option of making their articles available on OA to all for a publication fee. This initiative has been running since 2006 and currently encompasses 500 titles from across the Taylor & Francis Group's portfolio.
In addition, three titles currently available on a subscription basis will be converted to full OA for 2012. The digital archives of these titles will also be made OA. These titles - Green Chemistry Letters and Reviews, Journal of Biological Dynamics, Smart and Nano Materials - are said to publish significant research in their fields and have author communities with a strong interest in publishing research in an OA model.
Taylor & Francis will also be launching Taylor & Francis Open, an initiative that will cover all of the publisher's fully OA titles. One important part of this initiative is a new series of fully OA titles from 2012 in major subject areas. These titles will offer rapid online publication of methodologically sound research which will be subject to rigorous peer review. The journals will have affordable article publication fees, with discounts or fee waivers for emergent countries. The initiative will also involve collaboration with leading journals within T&F's existing portfolio, along with support from learned societies and internationally acclaimed editors, ensuring the quality of these titles.
In addition to these broad-spectrum titles, Taylor & Francis will also launch Journal of Organic Semiconductors and a major new financial economics title on a full OA basis for 2012. It will also announce in the next month a publishing partnership with an established major health and social care full OA title. Taylor & Francis will continue its publishing partnership with Kotuitui: New Zealand Journal of Social Sciences Online, an established fully OA journal currently published under the Routledge imprint in cooperation with the Royal Society of New Zealand.
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