Open access options on 7 more Nature Publishing Group journals

Posted by Jennifer Eidelman | 20 May, 2010

http://www.nature.com/press_releases/openaccess.html 

Nature Publishing Group (NPG) is pleased to announce open access options for seven further journals. Twenty-five journals published by NPG now offer authors an open access option, including all 15 academic journals owned by NPG.

American Journal of Gastroenterology, Bone Marrow Transplantation, Gene Therapy, International Journal of Obesity, Journal of Cerebral Blood Flow and Metabolism, Oncogene, and Leukemiahave all recently introduced open access options. Authors publishing in these journals can now choose to make their article open access on payment of an article processing charge (APC).

 

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ASM launches new open access journal

Posted by Jennifer Eidelman | 20 May, 2010

WASHINGTON, DC – May 18, 2010 — The American Society for Microbiology (ASM) today launched the inaugural issue of mBio™, a new open access online journal designed to make microbiology research broadly accessible. The focus of the journal is on rapid publication of cutting-edge research spanning the entire spectrum of microbiology and related fields.

“The microbial world is a highly interconnected one in which microbes interact with living and nonliving matter to produce outcomes that range from symbiosis to pathogenesis, energy acquisition and conversion, climate change, geologic change, food and drug production, and even animal behavioral change. The goal for mBio™ is to publish the very best science in microbiology for all individuals interested in any aspect of the microbial world,” says Editor in Chief Arturo Casadevall. Casadevall is the Leo and Julia Forchheimer Professor and Chair of the Department of Microbiology and Immunology at Albert Einstein College of Medicine in the Bronx, New York

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Mass extinctions and ocean acidification: biological constraints on geological dilemmas

Posted by Jennifer Eidelman | 17 May, 2010
Article from: Coral Reefs Volume 27(3):459-472 / September, 2008 by J. E. N. Veron
Abstract:  The five mass extinction events that the earth has so far experienced have impacted coral reefs as much or more than any other major ecosystem. Each has left the Earth without living reefs for at least four million years, intervals so great that they are commonly referred to as ‘reef gaps’ (geological intervals where there are no remnants of what might have been living reefs). The causes attributed to each mass extinction are reviewed and summarised. When these causes and the reef gaps that follow them are examined in the light of the biology of extant corals and their Pleistocene history, most can be discarded. Causes are divided into (1) those which are independent of the carbon cycle: direct physical destruction from bolides, ‘nuclear winters’ induced by dust clouds, sea-level changes, loss of area during sea-level regressions, loss of biodiversity, low and high temperatures, salinity, diseases and toxins and extraterrestrial events and (2) those linked to the carbon cycle: acid rain, hydrogen sulphide, oxygen and anoxia, methane, carbon dioxide, changes in ocean chemistry and pH. By process of elimination, primary causes of mass extinctions are linked in various ways to the carbon cycle in general and ocean chemistry in particular with clear association with atmospheric carbon dioxide levels. The prospect of ocean acidification is potentially the most serious of all predicted outcomes of anthropogenic carbon dioxide increase. This study concludes that acidification has the potential to trigger a sixth mass extinction event and to do so independently of anthropogenic extinctions that are currently taking place. Read more.....

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Open Surface Science Journal

Posted by Jennifer Eidelman | 2 Dec, 2009
THE OPEN SURFACE SCIENCE JOURNAL is an open access online journal, which publishes original full length, short research articles (letters) and reviews on all areas of fundamental and applied surface, interface, and thin films science. http://www.bentham.org/open/tosursj/index.htm

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Emerging infectious diseases

Posted by Jennifer Eidelman | 1 Dec, 2009
The online full text of this scholarly journal is available from http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/EID/index.htm

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