US panel clears publication of revised version of bird flu studies - April 2, 2012
The US’ National Science Advisory Board for Biosecurity (NSABB) recently announced its support to publish research studies showing how scientists made new easy-to-spread forms of bird flu. According to the board, the studies, now revised, do not reveal details bioterrorists could use.… Read More
Journal Microbiome now accepting submissions - April 2, 2012
Open access publisher BioMed Central, UK, has announced that its new open access journal Microbiome is now accepting submissions. Microbiome aims to unite investigators conducting research in environmental, agricultural and biomedical aspects of microbial ecology. Edited by Jacques Ravel of the University of Maryland School… Read More
Nature Publishing Group to co-publish new OA journal – Light: Science & Applications - March 30, 2012
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 - March 29, 2012
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 - March 28, 2012
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 - March 26, 2012
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 - March 20, 2012
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 - March 19, 2012
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 - March 16, 2012
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 - March 15, 2012
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
