Molecular Systems Biology is an Open Access, author pays model journal, jointly published by Nature Publishing Group and the European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO). The journal went live in March 2005 with three research articles and a review paper already solicited, peer-reviewed, edited, formatted and ready to go. Subsequent months have seen a steady trickle of research articles until January 2006. Four research articles were published last month, fully 25% of the articles published over the first 11 months of the journal. Is this a bump, a new plateau, or the beginning of a sustained upsurge? Time will tell.
Posted by
George Porter at 2/01/2006 02:26:00 PM.
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.
