Oxford, 28th October 2011

Taylor & Francis Group is marking Open Access week by announcing a range
of new Open Access journals and an enhancement of their current Open
Access programme for 2012. These initiatives will encompass publications
from across the range of science, social and behavioral sciences and
humanities subjects.

What's changing?
Taylor & Francis' current iOpenAccess option will be renamed for 2012 as
Taylor & Francis Open Select, and will continue to give authors and
their sponsors the option of making their articles available on Open
Acess to all for a publication fee. This initiative has been running
since 2006 and currently encompasses 500 titles from across Taylor &
Francis Group's extensive portfolio. 

In addition, three cutting-edge titles currently available on a
subscription basis will be converted to full Open Access for 2012. The
digital archives of these titles will also be made Open Access.  These
titles - Green Chemistry Letters and Reviews, Journal of Biological
Dynamics, Smart and Nano Materials - publish significant research in
their fields and have author communities with a strong interest in
publishing research in an Open Access model. 

And what's new?
Taylor & Francis will also be launching Taylor & Francis Open.  This
initiative will cover all our fully Open Access titles.  One important
part of this initiative is a new series of fully Open Access titles from
2012 in major subject areas. These titles will offer rapid online
publication of methodologically sound research which will be subject to
rigorous peer review.  The journals will have affordable article
publication fees, with discounts or fee waivers for emergent countries.
The initiative will also involve collaboration with leading journals
within T&F's existing portfolio, along with support from learned
societies and internationally acclaimed editors, ensuring the quality of
these titles. 

Commenting on this initiative, Professor Nick Quirke, Editor of the
journals Molecular Simulation and Journal of Experimental Nanoscience,
stated, "The new open access suite of journals being offered in Taylor &
Francis Open will allow universal access to high quality academic
literature, opening it up to all of the scientific community to benefit
from the research."

Details of these titles, their supporting journals and their editors
will be released in the coming weeks, so watch this space for more
information. 

In addition to these broad-spectrum titles, Taylor & Francis will also:

*        launch Journal of Organic Semiconductors on a full Open Access
basis for 2012;

*        launch a major new financial economics title on a full Open
Access basis for 2012;

*        announce in the next month a publishing partnership with an
established major health and social care full Open Access title;

*        continue our publishing partnership with Kotuitui: New Zealand
Journal of Social Sciences Online, an established fully Open Access
journal currently published under the Routledge imprint in cooperation
with the Royal Society of New Zealand.

Dr David Green, Global Journals Publishing Director, sums up Taylor &
Francis' new approaches to Open Access, "Taylor & Francis is committed
to producing high-calibre journals that showcase quality global
research. We believe that this content should be widely disseminated and
are now exploring various Open Access business models to enable
universal access in ways that are sustainable and meet the needs of the
research communities we serve. We feel the time is right to increase the
scope of our Open Access offerings to sit alongside the cost-effective
subscription and licensing options we offer to libraries.  Over the past
three years society journals have been partnering with Taylor & Francis
Group at the rate of more than one per week, and, if required, we are
now able to offer a potential partner a range of Open Access business
models where there is real author demand and we can ensure viability and
sustainability".

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About Taylor & Francis Group

Taylor & Francis Group partners with researchers, scholarly societies,
universities and libraries worldwide to bring knowledge to life. As one
of the world's leading publishers of scholarly journals, books, ebooks
and reference works our content spans all areas of Humanities, Social
Sciences, Science and Technology.

From our network of offices in Oxford, Philadelphia, Melbourne,
Singapore, Beijing, Tokyo, Stockholm, New Delhi and Johannesburg, Taylor
& Francis staff provide local expertise and support to our editors,
societies and authors  and tailored, efficient customer service to our
library colleagues. 

"Taylor & Francis: Local Partnership, Global Network"

For more information please contact:
Victoria Wright, Communications Manager, Taylor & Francis Group Journals
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