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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"">Portland Press adopts Creative Commons Attribution Licence (CC-BY) for Open Access papers</span></b></p>
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<pre style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"">16:00 CET, LONDON (UK), 01 FEBRUARY 2013: </span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"">– </span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"">Portland Press Limited, the </span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"">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 <i>ASN NEURO</i> and <i>Bioscience Reports</i>. This allows authors to comply fully with recent changes in funding body policies.</span></pre>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"">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.”</span></p>
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