JISC Funding to Five Publishers for Open Access Journals

6 January, 2005. JISC announces the winners of funding under the second round of its Open Access programme. The decision has been made to award five publishers funds to support open access delivery for their journals.

These journals are: The New Journal of Physics (published by the Institute of Physics Publishing); Nucleic Acids Research (Oxford University Press); Journal of Medical Genetics (BMJ Publishing Group Ltd); the journals of the International Union of Crystallography (IUCr); and The Journal of Experimental Botany (The Society for Experimental Biology)

JISC funding will ensure the waiving of all or part of the submission/ publication fees for all UK HE authors.

See full press release and the Create Change website: http://www.lib.cam.ac.uk/create_change/