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Portland Press adopts Creative Commons Attribution Licence (CC-BY) for Open Access papers
16:00 CET, LONDON (UK), 01 FEBRUARY 2013: - Portland Press Limited, the not-for-profit publishing subsidiary of the Biochemical Society, has today announced that it will invite authors to use the CC-BY (Creative Commons Attribution) licence for papers published in its two Gold Open Access journals ASN NEURO and Bioscience Reports. This allows authors to comply fully with recent changes in funding body policies.
This change in licensing arrangements also applies to papers published under the Opt2Pay (Gold Open Access) option in Portland Press's hybrid journals, which include the long-standing, core title the Biochemical Journal, Biochemical Society Transactions and the clinical research publication Clinical Science.
Caroline Black, MD Portland Press, said "As a publisher owned by a learned society we are committed to working with the scientific community to ensure the widest possible access to research. We support funded Gold Open Access as part of a package of measures to extend access to and dissemination of research."
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