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Wednesday, February 04, 2004

New OA journal from the U.S. government

A new peer-reviewed, OA journal launched in January: Preventing Chronic Disease: Public Health Research, Practice, and Policy. What's unusual is that it's published by the National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, one of eight centers within the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, a division of the Department of Health and Human Services, a branch of the U.S. federal government. The journal charges no processing fees. Nothing on the web site or in the inaugural issue says that the journal is OA --except a letter to the editor from Tommy G. Thompson, Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services: "I commend the staff of Preventing Chronic Disease: Public Health Research, Practice, and Policy on producing a journal that reaches a broad public health audience and presents research in electronic form on the Web, available free to the public." (Thanks to Debra Lappin.)