• Sage Open has reduced their open access article processing fee to $99 per article. Announcement Jan 24th 2013
• The Max Planck Society and De Gruyter Sign Agreement for Open Access Book Publishing. Press release Jan 24th 2013
• World Allergy Organization Journal is now open access has published its first open access articles with BioMed Central.

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