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Nature Publishing Group to co-publish new OA journal – Light: Science & Applications -

Light: Science & Applications (LSA), a new online open access journal, has announced the publication of its first articles. The journal is co-published by Nature Publishing Group (NPG) and the Changchun Institute of Optics, Fine Mechanics and Physics (CIOMP), Chinese Academy of Sciences. LSA covers fundamental… Read More

BioMed Central launches new scientific journal – Flavour -

Open access publisher BioMed Central, UK, has announced the launch of its new journal, Flavour. The journal was officially launched at a seminar ‘Flavour and the new Nordic Cuisine’, held in conjunction with the London Gastronomy Seminars and the University of London’s Centre for the Study… Read More

SureChem introduces SureChemOpen, a free access option for patent chemistry search -

SureChem, a patent chemistry product line of Digital Science, has introduced SureChemOpen, a new free access option for researchers needing a more effective means of searching the patent literature. The announcement was made in line with the American Chemical Society's Spring Meeting, held in San Diego,… Read More

Biochemical Society journal – Bioscience Reports – to convert to full open access -

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… Read More

Forty nine NPG journals now support Creative Commons through annual donation -

Scientific publisher Nature Publishing Group (NPG), UK, has announced that 49 journals it publishes now support Creative Commons through an annual donation. Based on the 1,113 open access articles published in 2011 in these journals, NPG and its partners are donating $22,260 to Creative Commons (CC).… Read More

Pensoft Publishers launch new open-access, peer-reviewed, interdisciplinary journal -

Scientific publisher Pensoft Publishers has announced the launch of a new open access journal - Nature Conservation. The journal joins Pensoft’s family of high technology open-access journals for biodiversity science. Nature Conservation seeks to mobilise ideas and data in all theoretical and applied aspects of… Read More

Addiction Science & Clinical Practice transfers to BioMed Central’s open access publishing platform -

Open access publisher BioMed Central, UK, has announced that the Addiction Science & Clinical Practice journal has joined its portfolio of open access titles. The journal was previously published by the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA). Addiction Science & Clinical Practice seeks to provide… Read More

Three BioMed Central journals accepted by Thomson Reuters for impact factor tracking -

Open access publisher BioMed Central, UK, has announced three of its journals have been recently accepted by Thomson Reuters for impact factor tracking. The journals are all due to receive their first impact factors in June 2013. The journals are: Health Research Policy and Systems,… Read More

NPG set to publish new open access journal CPT: Pharmacometrics & Systems Pharmacology -

Scientific publisher Nature Publishing Group (NPG), UK, and the American Society for Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics (ASCPT) have announced a new, open access journal. CPT: Pharmacometrics & Systems Pharmacology (CPT:PSP). The journal will launch in Fall 2012 and will be hosted at Read More

EMBO Molecular Medicine joins Wiley Open Access publishing programme -

Wiley-Blackwell, the STM and scholarly publishing business of John Wiley & Sons, Inc., US, and EMBO have announced that EMBO Molecular Medicine will, as of March 2012, join the Wiley Open Access publishing programme. Articles in the journal will be open access and free to view,… Read More


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