F1000 Research. Theoretical Biology and Medical Modelling. Scientific Reports. New journal “Nature ONE” launched today. It’s very unusual for me to post two blog posts in a single day, and even more so when both posts are based on press releases by the same organization.
But this is important news for everybody interested in scholarly publishing. In a press release earlier today, the Nature Publishing Group announced a new journal that is covering biology, chemistry, earth sciences and physics,is an open access journal, giving the authors the choice of two Creative Commons non-commercial licenses,will publish all papers that are judged to be technically valid and original, anduses article-level metrics to put the emphasis on the individual article rather than the journal as a whole. The new journal is called Scientific Reports, and obviously resembles PLoS ONE in many ways, down to the article-processing charges which are $1350 for both journals (but will go up to $1700 for Scientific Reports in 2012).
The journal is open for submissions and will publish the first papers this summer. PLoS Biology : Publishing science, accelerating research. A Peer-Reviewed, Open Access Journal Current Issue PLOS Biology is a peer-reviewed, open-access journal featuring research articles of exceptional significance in all areas of biological science, from molecules to ecosystems.
Systematic Biology. Molecular Biology and Evolution. Journal Citation Reports.