[BOAI] Fwd: PRESS RELEASE: Portland Press adopts Creative Commons Attribution Licence (CC-BY) for Open Access papers

[Peter Suber]

[Forwarding from Portland Press.  --Peter Suber.]


 *PRESS RELEASE*

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*Immediate Release

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*Portland Press adopts Creative Commons Attribution Licence (CC-BY) for
Open Access papers*



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16:00 CET, LONDON (UK), 01 FEBRUARY 2013: – Portland Press Limited,
the not-for-profit publishing subsidiary of the Biochemical Society,
has today announced that it will invite authors to use the CC-BY
(Creative Commons Attribution) licence for papers published in its two
Gold Open Access journals *ASN NEURO* and *Bioscience Reports*. This
allows authors to comply fully with recent changes in funding body
policies.



This change in licensing arrangements also applies to papers published
under the Opt2Pay (Gold Open Access) option in Portland Press’s  hybrid
journals, which include the long-standing, core title the *Biochemical
Journal, Biochemical Society Transactions* and the clinical research
publication *Clinical Science*.



Caroline Black, MD Portland Press, said “As a publisher owned by a learned
society we are committed to working with the scientific community to ensure
the widest possible access to research. We support funded Gold Open Access
as part of a package of measures to extend access to and dissemination of
research.”



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For further information please contact:

Caroline Black (Managing Director)

Portland Press Limited

Tel: +44 20 7685 2400

Email: caroline.black at portlandpress.com



For images and copy email: lindsey.button at portlandpress.com





*Notes to Editors:*



o    Portland Press Limited, a wholly owned subsidiary of the Biochemical
Society, is a not-for-profit, innovative publisher of journals, books and
electronic resources in the biochemical, cellular and molecular life
sciences. The surplus from the sale of publications is returned to the
scientific community via the activity of the Biochemical Society.
www.portlandpress.com



   - The Biochemical Society <http://www.biochemistry.org/Home.aspx> - The
   Biochemical Society promotes the advancement of the molecular biosciences,
   representing the interests of all those working in the sector. The
   Biochemical Society is the largest discipline-based learned society in the
   Biosciences with more than 6,000 members.

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