Helicos unveils transcriptome sequencing datasets on open access website - April 10, 2009
Life sciences company Helicos BioSciences, US, has announced the release of transcriptome sequencing (RNA-Seq) datasets on the HeliSphere Technology Center (http://open.helicosbio.com), the company's open access website for sharing Helicos datasets and bioinformatics software tools. Helicos' amplification and ligation-free approach is projected to… Read More
SAGE-Hindawi launch five new titles - April 6, 2009
Academic publisher SAGE and STM publisher Hindawi have announced the further expansion of their joint publishing collaboration, SAGE-Hindawi Access to Research. Five new titles are now live on the SAGE-Hindawi platform. These include Journal of Nucleic Acids; Stem Cells International; Journal of… Read More
Oxford Journals launches new OA journal – DATABASE - April 3, 2009
Oxford Journals, a division of Oxford University Press (OUP), UK, has announced the launch of an innovative, open access journal, DATABASE: The Journal of Biological Databases and Curation. David Landsman will serve as the Editor-in-Chief of the journal. The new journal seeks… Read More
MIT faculty votes for open access to their scholarly articles - March 24, 2009
The faculty at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), US, has voted to make their scholarly articles available to the public for free and open access on the Web. The move is aimed at broadening access to MIT's research and scholarship. The new policy was approved… Read More
New thematic series published by Journal of Neuroengineering and Rehabilitation - March 23, 2009
Journal of NeuroEngineering and Rehabilitation (JNER), published by open access publisher BioMed Central, UK, has published a new thematic series entitled 'Noninvasive Brain stimulation' (NBS). The series gives an important evaluation of the emergent technologies of non-invasive brain stimulation. The series of 6 articles brings together… Read More
More BioMed Central journals set to receive Impact Factors - March 17, 2009
Open access publisher BioMed Central, US, has announced that nine of its journals have recently been accepted for tracking by Thomson Reuters and are set to receive their first Impact Factors in June 2009 and June 2011. The journals Diagnostic Pathology; Implementation Science; Journal of Cardiothoracic… Read More
BioMed Central journal hits 250 publications landmark - March 16, 2009
Open access publisher BioMed Central, UK, has announced that its journal BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making has recently hit the 250 publications landmark. The journal has known considerable developments since its launch back in 2001. It is attracting more submissions than ever before and publications… Read More
BioMed Central to host scientific programme ‘Frontiers of Retrovirology’ - March 12, 2009
Open access publisher BioMed Central, UK, has announced that it will be conducting a scientific programme 'Frontiers of Retrovirology: Complex retroviruses, retroelements and their hosts' in Montpellier, France. Scheduled for September 21-23, 2009, the conference will bring together leading human retrovirus researchers… Read More
First international Open Access Week announced - March 10, 2009
The Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition (SPARC), the Public Library of Science (PLoS), and Students for FreeCulture have jointly announced the first international Open Access Week (October 19 - 23, 2009). Open Access… Read More
Open access option now available on European Journal of Human Genetics - March 5, 2009
Scientific Publisher Nature Publishing Group (NPG), UK, and the European Society of Human Genetics (ESHG) have announced that authors publishing research in the European Journal of Human Genetics (EJHG) can now opt to make their articles open access. The EJHG Open option, introduced by NPG and… Read More
