Articles are published under an unspecified "open-access license". There are no author-side fees for "high-impact" articles published as Priority Reports; author-side fees for "regular, high quality papers that are scientifically-sound and well technically performed" are not specified. Authors are also required to provide proactive access to certain data associated with their article:
Nucleic acid and protein sequences, macromolecular structures determined by X-ray crystallography (along with structure factors), and microarray data must be deposited in the appropriate public database and must be accessible without restriction from the date of publication. An entry name or accession number must be included as the last paragraph of the Experimental Procedures section in the final version of the manuscript.
The publisher's site mentions two other planned journals: Impact Biology and Impact Hundred ("like PLoS ONE"). All Impact journals will be OA.
Posted by
Gavin Baker at 3/13/2009 03:02:00 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.
