The Beilstein Journal of Organic Chemistry is a new peer-reviewed, open-access journal published by the Beilstein-Institut and BioMed Central. From the site: 'The Beilstein Journal of Organic Chemistry will begin publication during 2005. A Call for Papers providing full information for authors, will be released in May 2005. It will be a peer-reviewed online journal, published by the Beilstein-Institut in co-operation with BioMed Central, and the first major open access journal in this field. As such it will offer the international community of organic chemists a service that has been available to life scientists for some time - the opportunity to make their research results freely available on an open access basis and in the public archives of science....The journal will publish full research papers and short communications, as well as occasional reviews and commentary articles. Supplementary data will also be published. There will be particular emphasis on speed of publication and on presentation of the articles in a chemically intelligent way. The issues of the journal will be made freely available online, while an annual print archival edition will be available for purchase at cost price.' For more details, see today's press release.
Posted by
Peter Suber at 3/13/2005 09:29:00 AM.
The open access movement:
Putting peer-reviewed scientific and scholarly literature
on the internet. Making it available free of charge and
free of most copyright and licensing restrictions.
Removing the barriers to serious research.
I recommend the OA tracking project (OATP) as the best way to stay on top of new OA developments. You can read the OATP feed on a blog-like web page or subscribe to it by RSS, email, or Twitter. You can also help build the feed by tagging new developments you encounter.
