Good news for people building collections of free medical journals
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Subject: Biochemical Journal Public Access Policy
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Release date: 21 March 2005
BIOCHEMICAL JOURNAL
PUBLIC ACCESS POLICY
At the 111th annual meeting of the full Editorial Board of the
Biochemical Journal on 18 March 2005, it was announced that papers
accepted for publication in the Biochemical Journal will be deposited
automatically in PubMed Central (PMC), the U.S. National Institutes of
Health (NIH) free digital archive of biomedical and life sciences
journal literature, 6 months after the publication date of the issue.
Authors will not have to expend additional time and effort on the
deposition process themselves. The authentic, final copy-edited version
of Authors' articles will be placed in PubMed Central without the need
for further work from them.
This significant benefit is in addition to the fast and thorough peer
review, fast time from acceptance to publication and high visibility of
the Biochemical Journal.
Professor George Banting (Bristol), Chairman of the Editorial Board,
said "this policy will provide an additional and independent secure
online archive for the Journal and serve to reinforce the Journal's role
as a major vehicle in the global communication of science".
Rhonda Oliver, Managing Director of Portland Press Ltd, commented that
"As the Journal looks forward to celebrating 100 years of scientific
excellence in 2006, this policy will strike a balance between the
demands for greater public accessibility and providing the financial
sustainability to secure the continuity of the scientific record for its
next 100 years".
Notes:
1. The Biochemical Journal (www.biochemj.org) will be celebrating its
centenary in 2006. Time for first decision ~ 4 weeks for full papers, ~2
weeks for Accelerated Publications. Time from acceptance to publication
~9 weeks online for full papers and ~6 weeks online for Accelerated
Publications.
2. Accepted papers are published online as pdfs within 5 minutes of
acceptance as Immediate Publications (IMPs). IMPs are freely available
to anyone with internet access anywhere in the world.
3. The Biochemical Journal is published by Portland Press Limited
(www.portlandpress.com), the wholly owned publishing subsidiary of the
Biochemical Society. The publishing proceeds from the Journal are
returned by gift-aid to the Biochemical Society (www.biochemistry.org)
to enable it to carry out its mission to communicate biochemistry
internationally.
4. For further information contact [log in to unmask]
Biochemical Journal, 3rd Floor, Eagle House, 16 Procter Street, London
WC1V 6NX, UK 5. PubMed Central (www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov).
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