Dear All
Further to the announcement below, I would like to clarify
this
journal was previously published by Informa Healthcare, and
take
the opportunity to confirm Taylor & Francis' commitment
to Open
Access publishing, in addition to being a traditional
subscription publisher.
Taylor & Francis recently announced its iOpenAccess
programme has
been extended to cover 33 journals in environmental and
agricultural sciences, behavioural sciences and development
studies, in addition to the 175 titles in mathematics,
chemistry
and physics, 7 behavioural science journals from Psychology
Press
and medical and bioscience journals from Informa
Healthcare.
This initiative remains a pilot 'hybrid' open access scheme,
however it is planned to further increase the number of
iOpenAccess journals, in close consultation with editors,
society
partners, research funders and librarians.
For full details and a current list of participating
journals,
please visit http
://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/iopenaccess.asp.
Kind regards
Ashleigh Bell
Journals Sales Director
Taylor & Francis Group
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Subject: Society of Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance
Chooses Open
Access
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News release from BioMed Central: for immediate release
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Society of Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance Chooses Open
Access
over Subscription Publishing
Journal is one of many to switch to BioMed Central
publishing
platform in recent months
bond, December 12, 2007-BioMed Central, the world's largest
publisher of open access journals, is pleased to announce
that
the Journal of Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance (JCMR) is
moving
to BioMed Central's open access publishing platform from the
traditional subscription publishers, Taylor & Francis.
The move
from a subscription publisher to BioMed Central will allow
the
Society of Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance (SCMR) members
and
JCMR authors to disseminate their research in the burgeoning
field of cardiovascular magnetic resonance (CMR) imaging and
spectroscopy more efficiently. In addition, BioMed Central's
open
access policy ensures that their work will reach not only
other
SCMR members, but the widest possible global audience.
Beginning in January 2008, JCMR (www.jcmr-online.com)
readers
will have free, instant online access to all published
articles
not only on BioMed Central's website, but also on PubMed
Central
as well as other open access repositories, free from the
constraints of print publication cycles.
"Open access will bring benefits to readers that are of
utmost
importance to science - free, unfettered and widespread
access to
all research," said Dudley Pennell, editor in chief,
JCMR.
"Authors will benefit from faster publication cycles,
and an
increase in readership leading to increased citation counts.
We're looking forward to making the switch to open access
publishing via BioMed Central."
The first and only journal devoted exclusively to CMR,
Journal of
Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance (JCMR) includes basic and
clinical research articles, technical notes, review
articles, and
editorial commentary on the research, design, development,
and
evaluation of magnetic resonance methods applied to the
cardiovascular system.
"We're pleased that such a highly-regarded society
journal has
selected BioMed Central to publish its open access
journal," said
Matthew Cockerill, publisher of BioMed Central. "SCMR
society
members and others publishing in the journal will benefit
from
rapid publication thanks to BioMed Central's streamlined
manuscript submission tools and online peer review system.
Our
open access platform is the best way for SCMR members to
communicate the latest findings and state-of-the-art reviews
in
their field."
JCMR is part of a growing stable of society journals now
published by BioMed Central. Most recently, Journal of the
International Society of Sports Nutrition (JISSN) moved its
publishing activities to BioMed Central. Others include
Asia
Pacific Family Medicine, the regional journal for the World
Organization of National Colleges, Academies and Academic
Associations of General Practitioners/Family Physicians, and
Acta
Veterinaria Scandinavica, the official journal of the
Veterinary
Associations of the Nordic Countries.
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