The American institute of Physics (AIP) has launched a new authoritative open-access peer-reviewed journal. APL Photonics covers all areas within the field of photonics like quantum optics and cryptography, novel materials and engineered structures, nonlinear optics and nanophotonics as well as physics of light sources.
The International Year of Light started to tribute the global significance of light-based technologies.
Issues of the Journal will come at spring 2016.
The new open access journal Advanced Science has published its first issue.The journal covers all areas of science.
Article publication charges are paid by the Max Planck Society for all corresponding authors of the Max Planck institutes who publish articles in Wiley Open Access journals.
More about Wiley Open Access at http://www.wileyopenaccess.com/view/index.html.
The new open access journal Science Advances will join the Science family (AAAS). It will cover the entire range of science including engineering, environmental, mathematical and physical sciences amongst others.
The submission is already open and the first papers will be published in February 2015. As the Max Planck Society is a subscriber to Science journals, MP corresponding authors gets an discount on the article processing charges.
Dr. Salvatore Mele will report on the SCOAP3 (Sponsoring Consortium for Open Access Publishing in Particle Physics) initiative in the lecture series “The digital society”.
The SCOAP3 Open Access Initiative – Breaking new ground in Open Access through global partnership Tuesday 28. October - 6:30 pm Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften Einstein-Saal, Jägerstr. 22/23, 10117 Berlin
Find out more at http://www.bbaw.de/veranstaltungen/2014/oktober/scoap3
The lecture is part of the Science Year 2014 – The Digital Society.
The Nature Publishing Group’s journal Nature Communications will move to gold open access. The journal was launched as a multidisciplinary journal in 2010. It will only accept open access research submissions from 20th October 2014.
A report (pdf) by the Research Information Network shows “that there is a significant benefit for article views and downloads, as well as a small but significant citation benefit to publishing open access in Nature Communications”.
Press Release: http://www.nature.com/press_releases/ncomms-oa.html