[BOAI] The Royal Society needs your input on OA

[Peter Suber]

[Forwarding from the Royal Society, via the JISC-Repositories list.  --Peter
Suber.]


** Apologies for cross posting **

Dear Librarians and Open Access Administrators,

The Royal Society needs your help! We need your opinions on our open access
programme,
and you can have the chance to win £100 ($150) of Amazon vouchers.

http://svy.mk/OAsurvey

-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

As a result of the growing demand by both authors and institutions, The
Royal Society is pleased to announce the launch of Open Biology, our first
fully open access journal.

Being the first wholly open access online journal from the Royal Society, we
would like to ask for your contribution in helping us determine how we can
best serve your faculty and scientists who wish to publish in open access.

Please complete this short survey to help us better understand your
institution's requirements and views towards open access publishing and
funding.

http://svy.mk/OAsurvey

Your feedback is greatly valued and will be reviewed by the Royal Society's
publishing team, ensuring that we work together with those institutions that
support open access in order to achieve our goal towards the dissemination
of scientific knowledge.

-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Open Biology is a rapid, open-access, peer-reviewed online journal
publishing high quality research in cell biology, developmental and
structural biology, molecular biology, biochemistry, neuroscience,
immunology, microbiology and genetics.

The Editor-in-Chief, Professor David Glover (FRS) from the University of
Cambridge, aims to provide a journal with a fair and speedy review system,
"run by active, practicing scientists... with high expertise in this area",
"allowing good papers to be published quickly". He goes on to say that there
is a need for scientists to be actively involved in communicating and
publishing their ideas, and believes Open Biology can help answer these
needs by covering these specialist areas.

We thank you for your feedback, and if you may know of any other open access
advocates who wish to present their views to the Royal Society, please
forward them this email.

You can complete the survey here http://svy.mk/OAsurvey.


Kind regards,

Sana Kazmi
Institutional Marketing Manager

Tel +44 (0)20 7451 2216
Fax +44 (0)20 7930 2170
Web royalsociety.org<http://royalsociety.org/>

The Royal Society
6-9 Carlton House Terrace
London SW1Y 5AG

Registered Charity No 207043
The Royal Society: supporting excellence in science
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: http://mailman.ecs.soton.ac.uk/pipermail/boai-forum/attachments/20110908/89b58e7b/attachment-0001.html