Healthcare Technology Letters now publishing as Gold Open Access - The IET

"The Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) has announced that from 2017, its rapid-publication journal Healthcare Technology Letters (HTL) will publish under a gold open access model. The journal will also increase in frequency from 4 issues to 6 issues per year. Launched in 2014, HTL was developed to provide a home for peer-reviewed, innovative and timely research in the multi-disciplinary area of healthcare technology. The switch to a fully open access model enables essential research in this fast moving field to be made freely available to anyone who wishes to read it and use it. Articles are also deposited immediately in PubMed Central, further increasing visibility and discoverability of research. Speaking of the announcement, Vincent Cassidy, Head of Academic Markets at the IET: said, “Open access continues to grow in popularity and is becoming increasingly mandated by both funding bodies and universities. By changing the publishing model of HTL to fully open access, we can help researchers comply more easily with these mandates whilst aligning with the overall mission of the IET to support the progression of research across all engineering disciplines.” ..."