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Wednesday, April 26, 2006

Growing OA publisher for the developing world

IBScientific (IBS) is a non-profit publisher, launched last year (July 5, 2005), specializing in OA journals from developing countries. Currently it publishes IBScientific Magazine and the IBS Journal of Science, both under CC Attribution licenses. Other details from today's announcement:
All our publications are peer reviewed and registered as journals. This initiative has taken Algeria as a case for proof of concept and has attracted the attention of both academics and policy makers. We are also launching a collaboration gateway, to harbor science peer-to-peer communication. This project also serve the scientific community in large and has received some support from UK researchers. Our nine month life so far has been very exciting and our growth has prompt us to organise a conference to improve awareness of the open access model and its role in future science publishing..., and we would like to draw your attention to this initiative. (The conference date is the 8th of July 2006, in London.)