<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms',sans-serif;font-size:small">[Forwarding from Paul MacKenzie-Cummins at Bioscientifica, the commercial subsidiary of the Society for Endocrinology. --Peter Suber.]</div>
<br><div class="gmail_quote"><br><div lang="EN-GB" link="blue" vlink="purple"><p class="" align="center" style="text-align:center;line-height:17pt"><b><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Bioscientifica broadens open access licence options</span></b></p>
<p class="" style="text-align:justify;line-height:17pt"><b><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">BRISTOL, MARCH 15 2013</span></b><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"> - Bioscientifica are pleased to announce that our journals will now be moving to a CC-BY (</span><span lang="EN" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Creative Commons Attribution)</span><span lang="EN" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"> </span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">licence, with immediate effect. This change of policy will affect all research published on an open access basis and means that we will be relinquishing rights over the commercial reuse of accepted articles. This policy is in line with the new funding requirements from the Wellcome Trust and Research Councils UK, which come into force from April 2013. This new initiative covers the following Bioscientifica published journals:</span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:17pt"><u></u><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Symbol"><span>·<span style="font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:'Times New Roman'"> </span></span></span><u></u><b><i><u><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><a href="http://erc.endocrinology-journals.org/" target="_blank"><span style="color:windowtext">Endocrine-Related Cancer</span></a><u></u><u></u></span></u></i></b></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:17pt"><u></u><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Symbol"><span>·<span style="font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:'Times New Roman'"> </span></span></span><u></u><b><i><u><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><a href="http://www.eje-online.org/" target="_blank"><span style="color:windowtext">European Journal of Endocrinology</span></a><u></u><u></u></span></u></i></b></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:17pt"><u></u><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Symbol"><span>·<span style="font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:'Times New Roman'"> </span></span></span><u></u><b><i><u><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><a href="http://joe.endocrinology-journals.org/" target="_blank"><span style="color:windowtext">Journal of Endocrinology</span></a><u></u><u></u></span></u></i></b></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:17pt"><u></u><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Symbol"><span>·<span style="font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:'Times New Roman'"> </span></span></span><u></u><b><i><u><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><a href="http://jme.endocrinology-journals.org/" target="_blank"><span style="color:windowtext">Journal of Molecular Endocrinology</span></a><u></u><u></u></span></u></i></b></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:17pt"><u></u><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Symbol"><span>·<span style="font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:'Times New Roman'"> </span></span></span><u></u><b><i><u><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span style="color:windowtext"><a href="http://www.reproduction-online.org/" target="_blank">Reproduction</a></span></span></u></i></b></p>
<p class="" style="text-align:justify;line-height:17pt"><b><i><u><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><a href="http://www.endocrineconnections.com/" target="_blank"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:windowtext">Endocrine Connections</span></a></span></u></i></b><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">, our fully open access journal, already conforms to CC-BY standards.</span></p>
<p class="" style="text-align:justify;line-height:17pt"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Kathryn Spiller, Head of Publishing at Bioscientifica, said: “<i>Bioscientifica is excited to introduce this new initiative which will allow us to achieve sustainable open access and allow the broader access to our journals. This change is aimed at supporting the scientific community in disseminating their research findings as well as complying with funders’ requirements.</i>”</span></p>
<p class="" style="text-align:justify;line-height:17pt"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">We will continue to offer subscribing institutions a half price article processing charge (APC) for all our journals.</span></p>
<p class="" style="line-height:17pt"><b><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Note to Editors</span></b></p><p class="" style="line-height:17pt"><b><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">About Bioscientifica<u></u><u></u></span></b></p>
<p class="" style="line-height:17pt"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Bioscientifica offers a range of publication services including publishing journals, books and newsletters, events management, membership services, website design and maintenance. They are the wholly owned commercial subsidiary of the Society for Endocrinology. For further information visit: <b><u><span style="color:windowtext"><a href="http://www.bioscientifica.com/" target="_blank">http://www.bioscientifica.com/</a></span></u></b></span></p>
<p class="" style="line-height:17pt"><b><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Media contact<u></u><u></u></span></b></p><p class="" style="line-height:17pt"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">For further information, please contact:<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="" style="line-height:17pt"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Paul MacKenzie-Cummins, Communications & PR Manager, Bioscientifica<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class=""><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Tel: +(0)1454 642 772, Email: <a href="mailto:paul.mackenzie-cummins@bioscientifica.com" target="_blank"><span style="color:windowtext">paul.mackenzie-cummins@bioscientifica.com</span></a></span><u></u><u></u></p>
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