On the 13th December the latest open-access journal eLife was official
launched. A
press release yesterday stated eLife, the open-access journal for
outstanding advances in life sciences and biomedicine reveals a fresh approach
to presenting and using scientific content on its new website.
eLife aims to provide a journal portal that invites visitors to
SAGE Open
Engineering is a new Open Access peer-reviewed journal designed for the
publication of high quality research in all areas of engineering. SAGE is a
large international academic publisher of journals, books and electronic media
in all subject areas. Access UQ Library's SAGE subscription
journals.
The consortium for Open Access Publishing in Particle Physics (SCOAP) has negotiated that nearly all particle-physics
articles will be immediately free on journal websites from 2014. This impacts
researchers, meaning individual groups will not need to arrange open
publication of their work. Peter Suber an advocate of
open access stated "It is the most systematic attempt to convert all the
journals in a given field to open access"(Nature|News, Sept 2012) To read
further go to
Hindawi Publishing Corporation founded
in 1997, was the first subscription publisher to convert its entire portfolio
of journals to Open Access. Now in 2012, publishing over 400 open access
journals. This interview with Ahmed Hindawi provides an insight into the
development of open access journals. The interview is available on Richard
Poynder blog
Open and Shut.
Allen Press has produced a 2012 Study ofSubscription Prices
for Scholarly Society Journals based on
historical prices over the past two years from 220 journals and survey findings
from 20 society/association publishers. The study reveals how libraries are
dealing with the present budget challenges and the consequences for scholarly
publishers.
Journal Citation
Reports (JCR) for 2011 has been released. Journal Citation Reports uses
Web of Science
citation data to evaluate and compare scholarly journals. The 2011 release
features the largest-ever JCR with 10,677 journal listings in 232 disciplines;
2,552 publishers from 82 countries are represented. A total of 528 journals
receive their first Journal Impact Factor in this latest JCR release.
PeerJ offers academics two Open
Access publication options:
PeerJ - a peer-reviewed open access academic journal PeerJ PrePrints - a 'pre-print' server that allows you to gain
credit and feedback from peers before publishing.
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