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Monday, May 18, 2009

ASBMB journals go delayed OA

Robert Kiley, ASBMB - join PMC and UKPMC, UK PubMed Central Blog, May 18, 2009.

The American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology - publishers of the Journal of Biological Chemistry, Molecular and Cellular Proteomics and the Journal of Lipid Research have announced that they will make all their content freely available through the PMC and UKPMC repositories, with a 12-month embargo. (Previously ASBMB were only depositing NIH and "Author Choice" papers to PMC/UKPMC.)

Researchers funded by any of UKPMC Funders should continue to make use of the ASBMB "Author Choice" option. On selecting this option, papers are made available at PMC/UKPMC at the time of publication (no embargo), and are licenced using the Creative Commons, Attribution, Non-Commercial licence (CC-BY-NC). ...