Clinical Epigenetics is now a fully open access journal

"We are pleased to announce this first open access volume of Clinical Epigenetics following its transfer to BioMed Central one year after appearance of the first article in Clinical Epigenetics....The transition of Clinical Epigenetics to an open access publishing model has been made with the intention to reach out to the continuously increasing audience that expresses an interest in the field [3-6]. All articles will now be freely and universally accessible online to a much larger readership than any subscription-based journal.....The open access publishing model brings a number of considerable advantages to the journal including better inde x ing oppor tuni t i e s , immedi a t e publ i c a t ion upon acceptance and high visibility within the field. In addition, we anticipate that the number of online downloads will continuously increase, as well as the number of citations, potentially leading to a high citation impact....Authors hold the copyrights for their work and grant anyone the right to reproduce and disseminate the article, provided that it is correctly cited and no errors are introduced. In addition, the journal’s articles are deposited in widely and internationally recognized open access repositories.... Particularly in view of recurring worldwide financial and economic crises that may affect some countries more than others, it is important to us that the open access publishing model guarantees that a country’s economy will not influence its researchers’ ability to access articles because resource-poor countries (and institutions) will be able to read the same material as wealthier ones...."