[BOAI] Open Biology - open for business

[Peter Suber]

[Forwarding from the Royal Society.  --Peter Suber.]


*Announcing the launch of a new open access journal from the Royal Society*
*Open Biology* <http://rsob.royalsocietypublishing.org/>* *is a new, fast,
open access journal covering biology at the molecular and cellular
level.   This selective, online Royal Society journal will publish original,
high quality, peer-reviewed research in cell biology; developmental and
structural biology; molecular biology; biochemistry; neuroscience;
immunology; microbiology; and genetics.  The criteria for acceptance will be
scientific excellence, importance and originality.

Importantly, the *Open Biology **Editors and Editorial
Board*<http://royalsocietypublishing.org/site/openbiology/editorial_board.xhtml>are
practising scientists who aim to provide a journal that will serve
their
respective communities.  They will actively engage in identifying excellent
papers, selecting referees and  steering the overall direction of the
journal.  Our intention is to publish research of the highest quality and to
ensure a fair and speedy review process without recourse to unnecessary
rounds of revision.  Articles will include a minimum of supplementary
material, presented separately from the main text.

Author benefits include:
·  rapid publication in a Royal Society journal
·  rigorous and constructive peer-review
·  immediate open access
·  e-only continuous publication model, which allows immediate citation of
articles
·  author retention of copyright and liberal reuse rights via Creative
Commons Attribution Licence (CC by 3.0)
·  publisher deposit of articles in PubMedCentral
·  information on individual article downloads
·  high levels of author service and support
·  media promotion of articles
·  free online colour

If you would like your research peer-reviewed fairly, published rapidly and
disseminated widely, please  *submit*
<http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/rsob> your
next research article to *Open Biology.  *For further information on the
journal, browse the *Open Biology **web
pages*<http://rsob.royalsocietypublishing.org/>or contact
*Victoria Millen* <openbiology at royalsociety.org>.

*Open Biology *represents the Royal Society's first fully open access
journal.  You can find out more about the Royal Society's policy on open
access by visiting *our website*<http://royalsocietypublishing.org/info/EXiS>
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