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Saturday, October 14, 2006

New interdisciplinary hybrid OA journal

Human Frontier Science Program (HFSP) Publishing has launched a hybrid OA journal, HFSP Journal: Frontiers of Interdisciplinary Research in the Life Sciences. From today's press release:
The HFSP Journal aims to foster communication between scientists publishing high quality, innovative interdisciplinary research at the interface between biology and the physical sciences....

The HFSP Journal offers its authors the option to pay a fee to make their research articles Open Access immediately upon publication. For other articles, access is limited to subscribers for the first 6 months after publication, and access will be free thereafter. The HFSP Journal will be published online and in print.

HFSPO Secretary General and Nobel laureate Torsten Wiesel comments, “Due to its reputation for excellence in interdisciplinary research in biology, HFSPO is well placed to endorse the establishment of a high-level journal that shares its scientific values and will increase the visibility of the Program. This is the main reason I had no hesitation to agree to chair the Editorial Advisory Council of the HFSP Journal.”

The first articles will appear online in December 2006 and the first issue will be published in March 2007.