From: Center for Research Libraries
Date: Mon, 30 Jan 2012 09:03:01 -0500
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2012-01/cp-cpl012612.php
Public release date: 26-Jan-2012
Contact: Elisabeth (Lisa) Lyons
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Cell Press
Cell Press launches a new open-access journal, Cell Reports
Renowned publisher introduces premium-quality open-access journal
Cell Press reinforces its commitment to provide a broad range of
publishing options for the life sciences community with the inaugural
issue of a new open-access journal: Cell Reports. Since the
announcement in August, after 6 months of hard work on the part of our
authors, reviewers, and editorial board members as well as our own
editorial and production teams, the first issue is available online
today, January 26, 2011, with eight exciting papers on topics ranging
from evolutionary biology to immunology.
"We are thrilled to add Cell Reports to the Cell Press family of
journals, giving choice to our authors and readers and providing a new
avenue for communicating cutting-edge science." said Dr. Emilie
Marcus, CEO of Cell Press. "Cell Reports brings all the features
scientists have come to expect from Cell Press—exciting science,
highest quality content, editorial responsiveness, and rapid
publication—together with a broad biological scope, a short report
format, and an open-access business model."
Leading the Cell Reports editorial team is Dr. Boyana Konforti, who
brings a wealth of experience from a successful research career and
over 13 years as a professional editor. Support from Cell Press
editors as well as an actively engaged editorial board ensures broad
expertise across an extensive range of topics. With a focus on
concise, provocative stories and a professional approach to the entire
publication process, Cell Reports will make a distinctive contribution
to open-access publishing.
The launch of Cell Reports is the next step in Cell Press's ongoing
dedication to serving the scientific community. Cell Press has always
placed a high priority on enabling authors to disseminate published
research widely and easily and offers a variety of options to make
content universally accessible. The Cell Press open-archive policy,
enacted in 2005, allows readers to access all online research journal
content free of charge from 12 months after publication. This policy
now provides a resource of over 24,000 articles that are freely
available online. Newly-published featured articles are also available
online at no charge on a monthly basis. On behalf of authors, Cell
Press has voluntarily deposited over 7,200 of the total 84,863
Elsevier contribution of research papers into PubMed Central databases
over the past 5 years. Cell Press continues to partner proactively
with institutions, government agencies, and funding bodies to
facilitate access to research. Cell Press and Elsevier also
participate in a wide range of worldwide initiatives to provide
low-cost or free access to scientific information to teachers,
healthcare patients and providers, as well as researchers with limited
resources. In addition, subscribing libraries are able to offer free
access to walk-in users.
Through Cell Reports, Cell Press is happy to provide authors with the
option to publish in a prestigious journal with immediate open access.
Authors can choose to publish their work under one of two Creative
Commons licenses, one of which is the most liberal available. Cell
Press and Elsevier share an ongoing commitment to promote access to
the scientific literature and to support a broad range of sustainable
publishing models.
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For more information on Cell Reports, please visit http://cellreports.cell.com/
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