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Tuesday, January 17, 2006

Three new OA journals from Hindawi

Hindawi Publishing has announced three new OA journals. From today's announcement:
"Hindawi Publishing Corporation" is pleased to announce that it has recently added three new titles to its open access journal collection. [1] Bioinorganic Chemistry and Applications (BCA) has been published as a subscription based journal since 2003, and it has already been accepted for inclusion in the Science Citation Index Expanded. It is edited by Professor Nick Hadjiliatis of the University of Ioannina, Greece....[2] The International Journal of Photoenergy (IJP) has been published as a subscription-based journal since 1999, and it currently has an Impact Factor of .877. It is edited by Professor Sabry Abdel-Mottaleb of Ain Shams University, Egypt....[3] The International Journal of Image and Video Processing (IJIVP) is a new journal that has been launched as an open access title. It is edited by Professor Jean-Luc Dugelay from the Institut EURECOM in France....These journals shall have online editions, which are free with no subscription or registration barriers, and print editions which shall be priced at a level reasonable for covering the printing cost. All articles published in these three journals shall be distributed under the "Creative Commons Attribution License," which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. These new additions bring the number of open access journals published by Hindawi to fifteen. In addition, Hindawi will be announcing a number of additional open access journals over the next few months.