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March 23, 2005

New open access chemistry journal

Open-Access Organic Chemistry Journal Debuts
by Ann Thayer, March 21, 2005

The Beilstein Institute for the Advancement of Chemical Sciences, in
Germany, with help from online publisher BioMed Central, is launching the Beilstein Journal of Organic Chemistry. The peer-reviewed publication will be the first major open-access journal in this field, its sponsors say. “Open-access journals, which are freely available to readers online, enhance the journal publishing process without compromising its important quality-control function,” the institute says in an online introduction to the journal. The debut coincides with an escalating debate around open access as NIH and the American Chemical Society and other publishers recently unveiled policies to broaden access to research articles.

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Posted by Donna Braquet at March 23, 2005 12:21 PM